Eliot O'Hara. Making the Brush Behave. VG HC 1935 1st Edition, 5th Impression, No DJ

O'Hara, Eliot. New York. Minton, Balch & Company, 1935.

English Language, First Edition, 5th Impression, Very Good HC 12mo, 5 1/2" x 8 1/4",136 pp. 

No dustjacket. Light blue cloth over boards, black lettering to spine, rubbing and shelfwear to tips and head and foot of spine, previous owner's name and inscription at first free endpaper, split between pages 54-55, though not detached, otherwise clean, and unmarked throughout.  136 pp. replete with 29 black-and-white illustrations across fourteen lessons in watercolor painting. Eliot O'Hara's painting Rio Frias in the Andes to frontis.  Includes a Contents, List of Illustrations, a Foreword, List of Materials Required, and a Bibliography of Useful Books for the Watercolorist. Influential artist and educator Eliot O'Hara (1890 – 1969) was known for his masterful impressionistic watercolor landscapes. This is his second book on painting instruction after Making Watercolor Behave.