Exhibition of

WATER COLORS
by

T. HERZL ROME

APRIL APRIL 21
7 • 1940
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WORCESTER ART MUSEUM

Born in Worcester in 1914, Herzl Rome has painted
on and off since grammar school days, for the most
part under the guidance of O. Victor Humann, for many
years instructor of painting in the Museum School. In
1926 he first traveled abroad, visiting Palestine, Italy
and France. After his freshman year at Harvard(1932-
3) he continued his studies at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, concentrating upon philosophy and Hebrew-
literature. The intervening summer was spent in Spain
where, as he says, he was exposed to El Greco and
Moorish architecture. Then followed a year of painting
in Persia. There he worked for a time with a miniaturist
in the tradition of the great Behzad and also painted
among the "naked mountains and desert valleys" of
that fascinating country. In 1935 he resumed his classes
at Harvard, studying philosophy, economics and politi-
cal theory. After winning the First Bowdoin Prize, he
was graduated with highest honors in 1937. Then came
two years of painting and sculpting in Paris, with one
summer in Norway and another spent in the Medi-
terranean. The water colors in this exhibition are the
result of these two summers of travel.

Mr. Rome's paintings have been shown in several

group exhibitions of American art at this Museum and
he has also exhibited in the Salon des Surindependents,
Paris, at the Harvard Society of Contemporary Art,
at the Addison Gallery in Andover, the Fitchburg Art
Center, and in various exhibitions in Gloucester. One of
his canvases was shown at the Golden Gate Exposition
in San Francisco last summer.
 CATALOGUE
NORWAY. 1938

1. Church at Svolvaer 9. Mountain Waterfall

2. Svolvaer Boats 10. Olden on Nordfjord
3. Abrahamsen's House 11. Mill at Olden
4. Summer Rain 12. Mountain Lake
5. Svolvaer Wharves 13. Church at Nordfjordeid
6. Svolvaer Harbor 14. Nordfjord Hamlet
7. Church at Kabelvag 15. Seawater Channel
8. Kabelvag Homes 16. North of Bergen

MEDITERRANEAN •
1939
17. Stromboli After Twilight 24. Hydra Cliffs

18. Behind Patras 25. Acropolis I

19. Waterfront at Patras 26. Acropolis II

20. Itea Harbor 27. Byzantine Church

21. Delphi Cliffs 28. Promentory in the Aegean

22. Valley at Delphi 29. Stromboli I

23. Gulf of Corinth 30. Stromboli II