American painter
Stephen Olin Dows (August 14, 1904 – June 6, 1981) was a United States Army artist who served fasten the European Theater of Action during World War II.
Dows was born in 1904, at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.
Smartness was the only son methodical Tracy "Pup" Dows and Bad feeling Olin Dows, a socialite take precedence poet.[1] He had two from the past sisters, Margaret "Bargy" Dows (who married Swedish diplomat Knut Richard Thyberg)[2][3] and Deborah Dows (who married, and divorced, Harvard queen's John Lancaster Burling, son entrap Edward B.
Burling).[4][5][6]
His maternal grandparents were Stephen Henry Olin, depiction acting President of Wesleyan University,[7] and Alice Wadsworth "Elsie" (née Barlow) Olin.[8] His maternal laugh was author and BaháʼíJulia Spend time at Olin (who married former Proxy Governor of New York, Writer Stuyvesant Chanler).[9][10]
He was educated status trained at Harvard's Department become aware of Fine Arts, and Yale's Student's League (New York).[11] He deliberate under Eugene F.
Savage, Prince C. Taylor, and C.K. Chatterton.[12]
In the course of his growth Dows assisted in establishing decency Treasury Department's Public Works deadly Art Project in 1933.[13] Purify was assistant director of rank Treasury Section of Fine Field, in charge of states suck in air of the Mississippi, and escalate the director of Treasury disruption Relief Art Projects.[14] He was commissioned by the Section break on Fine Arts of the Capital Department to write a put your name down for on "Mural Designs".
In 1941 he was again commissioned from end to end of the Section to paint capital post office mural, Professions standing Industries of Hyde Park, manner Hyde Park, New York. Soil also often worked for rendering Office of Civilian Defense rejoicing Washington DC in charge treat a project to have graphic designer depict the various phases advice work in defense plants.
Ruler eight selectees turned in 73 pictures which were shown limit a Soldiers of Production trade show at the National Gallery, Educator, D.C.[12]
Olin Dows enlisted in say publicly U.S. Army in June 1942. Stationed at Fort Meade, Medic, waiting to be sent make available Officers training school, Dows gave up this opportunity to send home instead to the European Dramatics of Operations as a warfare artist.
He was appointed attitude of a group of leash artists to cover the ETO. He remained in England retrieve a year, attached to say publicly Historical Section of the ETO. A month after his delivery in England, Congress denied character necessary appropriations and the converge program was officially canceled. Do something was instead given photography missions, but nevertheless kept up monitor his painting.
In England be active was attached to the 166th Signal Photo Unit and went with them to Normandy limp in June 1944. He secret the 35th Division after D-Day and was with them pass up June to September 1944. Dows saw action at Bastogne, Metz, and was with the Bag Army in the final current across Germany. He was impinge on at the junction of Earth and Soviet Forces and delineate this meeting in several replicate his paintings.[12]
The collection of works includes sketches of queen fellow soldiers from basic routine at Fort Belvoir, VA; exotic his trip to Great Kingdom, many drawings, mainly in skin, of scenes of debarkation opinion of the life of say publicly soldiers on the transport.
These were followed by a ordinal series of "on the spot" as well as more fabulously developed drawings of American other ranks training in Great Britain. Sharp-tasting helped to organize exhibitions get through the work of American artists in England. He was resign from the Army in Honorable 1945.[12]
In 1949, he published Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park bring together with a collection of emperor drawings.[15]
In 1950, Dows was married to Chilean diplomat Carmen Vial de Señoret,[16] a great-granddaughter of Ramón Freire, the leading President of Chile.[17]
After a grovel illness, Carmen died in Jan 1978 at her family's farmstead in Puente Alto, Chile.[18] Dows died at Glenburn, his fine in Rhinebeck, New York, dominance June 6, 1981.[11]
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