Background
O’Hara, Eliot was born on June 14, 1890 in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel and Mayfred (Leonard) O’H.
O’Hara, Eliot was born on June 14, 1890 in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel and Mayfred (Leonard) O’H.
Manager and president O’Hara Dial Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1912-1928. Guggenheim travel fellow, Europe, Russia, Labrador, 1928-1930. Founder O’Hara School of Watercolor Painting and Watercolor Gallery, Goose Rocks Beach, Maine, 1931.
Painter in South. America, 1932-1933.
Teacher Telfair Academy, Savannah, Georgia, 1933-1935, University of North Carolina, 1935, Yale School of Architecture, 1935-1937, John Herron Institute, Indianapolis, 1937-1938, Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial. Art, Philadelphia, 1938, Norton School of Art, West Palm Beach, 1942, 1945-1949.
Collaborator Encyclopedia British Films, Incorporated., 1946. Producer, director many films on painting, from 1949.
Painter in South. America, 1932-1933. Producer, director
Served in camouflage section, United States Navy, 1943-1944. Member of the National Academy of Design. Represented in 52 public collections.
Married Shirley Putnam, March 6, 1924. Children: Desmond, Nancy June.