Evening star., 1931-12-13
0[E[ QE ART AND ART|CT(

and elsewhere, but he will doubtless as time
passes, become better and most fayorablv
known. His work shows a keen sense of ards
tic values and an ability for skillful rendering.
A ND yet another unrelated feature is a group
of eight mina lures by Mary Elizabeth
King OF this city wife of Mai Archibald King
three of whose works in the same medium
are included in the Miniature Painters Sculp-
tors and Grevers' Socety's inaugural exhibition
at TIE Corcoren Gallery. This group of eight
evidences Mrs Kings ability to render with
equal skill those of mature age and children.
and witnesses TO verse tility as we'll as pro-
hciency ON her part. Two of the miniatures
shown have bcen previously exhibited in the
leading exhibitions in Philadelphia ami Balti-
more.
CLIOT O'HAEA'S exhibition CT water colors
- and sgrafito prints, which was opened at
Gordon Dunthorne's last Monday efterncon
with tea, is refreshing and delightful Here
are paintings broadly rendered in m9nner
peculiarly suitet to their me lium each one
OF which posse1ses elemental beauty, a beauty
not merely in the thing portrayed but DIS
covered and manifested by the artist For
example, Of the paintings is of a very
com ronplace white, portable garage bit SO
framed by trees and foliage, SO ba-dabS,ed by
sunshine that 1t is lovely to behold and slip
ping out OF the commonplace to which it would
Mfr. OHara has not one but many STYLES
adapting his method and manner invariably
to the subject which he tas In hand In some
instances he paints evidently with full, fiow-
ing brush, in others he completely obliterates
brush marks The latter is the case In his
picture of Wall Street, Frozen Assets" an
imposing picture of the man-made canyon
with the tower of Trinity Church silhouetted
against the evening sky.
To MIR. OHaras picture CT gulls on the rocks
at Monhegan place of honor was given in
the Washington Water Color Clubs exhibition
at the Corcoran Gallery second var:a-
tion of this theme Is to be found in his exhbi-
ticn at Gordon Dunthornc's one which many
will perhaps like even batter, the gulls being
transcribed in smaller scale and as incidental
to the seascape. Decorative and extremely
effective is his painting, The Kyle at Packs
Harbor," Labrador scene, and belonging to
the same group are two three unusual and
effective iceberg pictures.
Much nearer home, but also out of the
ordinary Is his painting of the Lee Mansion,
a picture made from the doorway looking
through the columns of the portico towerd
Washington, from sha Low to sunlight. Glcnc-
ing, dazzling sunlight is portrayed BY Mr..
O'Hara in two of his Ogunquit Beach subjects,
one primarily a study in light, the other a
contrast of figures and broad, open spsces
Another Ogunauit subject is stud of pines
Under the Pier" Like John Whorf, whose
paintings at the present time have quite right
ly a greet vogue, Eliot O'Hara chooses his
themes well and demonstrates good reason for
his choice-in short, whateTer he paints he
makes charming, rot through false values nor
exaggeraton, but through his sensitive
vision and keen enthusics-1.
Mr.. OHara is an experimental He has
been painting for only six years, entering the
field of art incidentally as an amateur FOR
pleasure and finding it so abzorbing that ne
has made it his profession Now he Is pro-
ducing prints of unique and interesting sort,
prints which have the appearance of wo-d-
cuts but by him have been named "Sgraffito"
His first series, IA in number shares h0nofs
in the current exhibition with his wcter colors
and is chiefly, but rot all of local sub ects.
The Connecticut Avenue Bridge the West-
ington Cathedral, the Washington Monument
the Capitol Mount Vernon oil appear in his
series in new guisa, from original viewn>!rts
The Washington Mcnur1eut, for ex-mn1, S
seen in the Rejecting Pool, a sho 'ow tu. a
very real shadow
Sgrofhto is an old Italian art wni h on
sisted of putting thin coat of one color o"er
thick coat of another then scratchinr avay
the top coat. 1t is sirapl-- method th-n wo-1-
cutting. but the f>,cI result Is rauch the -c-ne.
With the wocdcut the prints are made fl IN
the original boz; with sg~afTlito reproduction
is through the medium of zinc plcte and
hence more mecAanical. Mr. O'Hara how
ever. limits his editions to 100 prints each Of
which Is NUMBERED end signed This exhibi-
tion continues through Chr,strnss
III paintings BY Benson Moore OCCUPY to
December "a, the pal,ery at the Arts Club
evidenc1ng to the industry as well as the gift