[One] of the leading realist painters of the period to make his home… [in the Fort Lee area]… was George Overbury Pop Hart. Within a realistic, sometimes reportorial style, Hart was perhaps America’s finest watercolorist, investigating life all over the world… as well as different parts of the United States - in a dashing style combining brilliant draftsmanship with broad, free-flowing washes of color.

– William H. Gerdts, Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey