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sun-baked patio, where it is a joy to patients and staff alike.

Miss Rush does some abstractions, but specializes in the more conventional forms of painting. She paints lots of little adobe houses, often with people in the foreground and almost always against a mountain backdrop. She uses delicate tones in much of her work, and loves to paint animals into her lush landscapes. Deer and antelope are long-time favorites with her.

The names she gives to individual paintings often reflect moods brought about by the poetry or prose she happens to read. Thus one of her loveliest canvases got its name from a verse by William Blake - "The Moon Like a Flower in Heaven's High Bower." She once called a rustic barnyard scene "Bantams in Pine-Woods---with Apologies to Wallace Stevens." Still another title came from Archibald Macleish: "A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be."

Of course many of her finest paintings have simple titles, such as "Viaducts and Villages," "Tiger in Jungle," "Deer and Mountains," and "The Procession"---this last inspired, she says, by having witnessed some black-shawled women wending their way toward a hill-top shrine near Abiquiú, N. M. One of Miss Rush's better abstractions is called "Controversy in Heights."

Olive Rush never copies styles, not even her own. "It is a waste of time," she says. "Love of any style will influence you right to your very heart, and will shine through your work." She likes to tell of a visit made to Santa Fe some years back by [[crossed-out]] Marianne Moore [[crossed-out]] Harriet Monroe, the poet. "We sat on a hill up the canyon," says Miss Rush. "She said, When I buy a picture, it must acknowledge the spiritual forces which have made it.' And we may as well know that to the discerning eye any picture will show forth the forces, whether spiritual or not, that built it."

Miss Rush shows a zestful interest in new ideas in art. When she hears