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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Eliot O'Hara: Signed Penny Postcard, 1937

Eliot O'Hara

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Two Paintings by an Artistic Mentor of Marvin Mangus: William F. Walter

William F. Walter

William F. Walter (1904-1977) Artist and Art Teacher In Washington DC Since 1930

Washington Star Obituary: July 8, 1977

William F. Walter, 73, a well-known Washington DC artist and teacher, died Wednesday at Sibley Memorial Hospital after suffering an aneurysm.

He worked in both oils and watercolors and mainly painted landscapes and marine scenes. He taught art for many years. Born in Washington DC, Mr. Walter was a graduate of Central High School. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art under Charles Hawthorne and W. Lester Stevens. During the 1930s, Mr. Walter was an instructor at the Abbott Art School in Washington DC, and later taught classes at his home. During World War II, he worked on important camouflage techniques for the Navy's Bureau of Ships.

Mr. Walter, who won a number of awards for his work, mounted one-man shows at George Washington University and the Arts Club of Washington, and also exhibited at Harvard University and the University of Iowa.

He had been a member of the Arts Club since 1930 and had served on its Board of Directors. He was also a former President of the Landscape Club of Washington; former Vice-President of the Society of Washington Artists; and a member of the Washington Watercolor Association.

He is survived by his wife, Evelyn; son, Edward P. Walter, of Birmingham, Michigan; a daughter, Diana W. Dickinson of Loretto, Virginia; and seven grandchildren.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Eliot O'Hara: Juneau, Alaska Fishing Boats Watercolor Painting

Eliot O'Hara

Born in Waltham, Massachusettes, Eliot O'Hara discovered that he had a natural ability to render anything in watercolor. His innovative techniques resulted in six book being written from 1932 to 1965 about his discoveries which for several generations showed thousands how he could create any effect he wanted with the difficult medium.

Winning awards from the AWS (American Watercolor Society) as early as 1930, he embarked on a career that combined teaching his craft in his studio and on the road. His studio in Goose Rocks Beach, Maine burned in 1947 therefore the earlier works are more valuable since fewer exist. The entire estate is stored at the Harmon-Meek Gallery. They have represented his estate since 1973 and have done 14 solo exhibitions since 1974.

He is represented in more than sixty museum permanent collections and was the most popularly known watercolorist in America during the 1930s to the1950s. There are very few regions of the world that O'Hara missed painting. He was the first foreign artist allowed to paint freely inside of the Soviet Union in 1929. Most of those works were sold for the Russian war relief effort in 1942 in Washington, DC.

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine has 125 watercolors from 1922 to 1968, which were gifted a number of years ago by the estate. The Boca Raton Museum of Art also has all of his works he deemed wrong in some manner and thus have a huge corner torn out to prevent their sale to collectors. These works are good for teaching purposes, thus the gift to the museum.