| Eliot O'Hara | ||
| Birth Date: June 14, 1890 |
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| Death Date: July 30, 1969 Artist Gallery |
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| Eliot O’Hara was considered a successful businessman by 1912, but his creative side had been steadily increasing. By the early 1920s O’Hara spent most of his evenings, weekends and vacations working on his art.
In the spring of 1924 O’Hara and his wife, Shirley embarked on a tour of Europe. During this trip he painted nearly three hundred sketches, an average of two a day. In the fall of 1924, five of these were accepted at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club Annual. The next year he had a one-man show with R. C. Vose Gallery in Boston and sold out.
During the following seven years, O’Hara sold his business, won a two-year Guggenheim Fellowship and had several one-man shows in Boston, New York, Washington D.C., and London.
O’Hara traveled and painted all over the world. He was among eight artists who in 1948 became the first watercolorists admitted to the National Academy of Design and in 1964 he was voted as a life member to the American Watercolor Society.
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