Evening Journal

WILMINGTON ARTIST DOES SPLENDID WORK

The Easter number of the Woman's Home Companion carries as its special feature, in full page insert, a reproduction in color of Miss Olive Rush's painting, "The Girl In the Hall." The painting is one of the best of the artist's always strong and richly colored pictures.

The charming young girl in white, with amber lights in necklace, parasol, and big picture hat, against a single, harmonious background, is thoroughly delightful.

The magazine also prints a portrait of this young Wilmington artist, who was one of Mr. Pyle's favorite pupils, and who, with Miss Ethel P. Brown, now occupies his studio. In an appreciation of Miss Rush's excellent work, the magazine refers to her instinctively taking up the career of an artist, quoting from her own saying: "I well remember the first time I saw a palette and paint rag, and twisted tubes, and I think I know what were the thrills of the mediaeval boy when he first saw the sword of his ancestors."

Miss Rush studied at the Corcoran in Washington, and at the Art Students' League in New York, before coming to Mr. Pyle. The sculptor, St. Gaudens was one of her instructors.

She has also spent some time in painting in Europe. Her Quaker ancestors freed the slaves on their estate long before abolition days, and afterwards settled on a farm in the middle west.