Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-28 | Page 2 | Four Paintings by Former Factory Worker Hang in Eastern Exhibition

Four FoOr Paintings by Former Factory i I Worker Hang in Eastern Exhibition I m B Br Associated Presa GLOUCESTER Mass l July 28 At tho the current exhibition of th the I North Shore Arts association here her I hang four paintings by a man who wh I less than four years ago earned hi his living In a 11 Waltham factory One o of those paintings won on the Irving Irving- BraI Brokaw Bro Bra I kaw prize It is entitled The Tho Bridge at Ronda Honda and imprisoned and glow Ing through the pigments seems to tobe tor r 1 be tho the sunlight of Spain Eliot OHara O'Hara painted them thorn and scores of other paintings on exhibItion exhibition exhibition tion in various parts of ot this and other countries BEGAN IN 1924 1 Few persons persons' could gaze out of ot a factory window overlooking a dump and see sec a career in the art world ahead but OHara O'Hara did Former factory factory factory fac fac- tory associates remember when OHara O'Hara bou bought ht his first box of water ater watercolors watercolors colors in Iii 1924 They say the un- un scene outside the window was one of his first subjects or at least It t was the subject of one of ot the first w works he sold Encouraged ho he continued continued con- con to ply his brush and painted and md sold several other pa paintings Then In 1928 1922 OHara O'Hara tried for and nd received a a. Guggenheim foundation fellowship and he was definitely dl- dl from the field of ot business and manufacturing OHara O'Hara was born in Waltham In 1800 and attended public schools there here At 20 he entered the factory as is a piece worker on punch presses The Guggenheim fellowship took him to Europe and for the next t two O o years ears he painted Jn France Franco Italy Spain Switzerland Russia and other countries The Jungles of Africa and the ho Icebergs of Labrador were squeezed from his tubes This summer summer summer sum sum- mer he is Js painting along Maines Maine's rugged coast from a cottage studio at Goose Rocks Beach HONORED IGNORED IN RUSSIA RUSSI While In the soviet union OHara O'Hara was invited by tho the minister of fine arts of TIflis capital of Georgia Georgia- Russia Russin to give an exhibition there the he first time such an honor was extended extended ex- ex tended ended an American I II have gone through no continued period of ot study explained the arIst artist artist ar- ar unless a more and more constant con- con stant association with painters and the he sheer Joy of looking at nature and nd trying to analyze its effects on me rae could be considered study