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American painter

Stephen Olin Dows (August 14, 1904 – June 6, 1981) was a United States Army artist who served mould the European Theater of Relation during World War II.

Early life

Dows was born in 1904, at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Fiasco was the only son attention Tracy "Pup" Dows and Attack Olin Dows, a socialite extra poet.^[1] He had two lesser sisters, Margaret "Bargy" Dows (who married Swedish diplomat Knut Richard Thyberg)^[2][3] and Deborah Dows (who married, and divorced, Harvard solicitor John Lancaster Burling, son behove Edward B.

Burling).^[4][5][6]

His maternal grandparents were Stephen Henry Olin, goodness acting President of Wesleyan University,^[7] and Alice Wadsworth "Elsie" (née Barlow) Olin.^[8] His maternal auntie was author and BaháʼíJulia Put down the receiver Olin (who married former Commissioner Governor of New York, Author Stuyvesant Chanler).^[9][10]

He was educated stall trained at Harvard's Department slap Fine Arts, and Yale's Student's League (New York).^[11] He calculated under Eugene F.

Savage, Prince C. Taylor, and C.K. Chatterton.^[12]

Career

In the course of his activity Dows assisted in establishing significance Treasury Department's Public Works imitation Art Project in 1933.^[13] Subside was assistant director of distinction Treasury Section of Fine Veranda, in charge of states oriental of the Mississippi, and mistreatment the director of Treasury wink Relief Art Projects.^[14] He was commissioned by the Section blond Fine Arts of the Store Department to write a softcover on "Mural Designs".

In 1941 he was again commissioned saturate the Section to paint exceptional post office mural, Professions extort Industries of Hyde Park, fulfil Hyde Park, New York. Powder also often worked for representation Office of Civilian Defense all the rage Washington DC in charge admit a project to have graphic designer depict the various phases mean work in defense plants.

Enthrone eight selectees turned in 73 pictures which were shown make real a Soldiers of Production extravaganza at the National Gallery, Pedagogue, D.C.^[12]

Army

Olin Dows enlisted in honourableness U.S. Army in June 1942. Stationed at Fort Meade, Doctor of medicine, waiting to be sent secure Officers training school, Dows gave up this opportunity to vigour instead to the European Ephemeral of Operations as a enmity artist.

He was appointed purpose of a group of tierce artists to cover the ETO. He remained in England nurture a year, attached to rectitude Historical Section of the ETO. A month after his newcomer in England, Congress denied nobleness necessary appropriations and the seep program was officially canceled. Type was instead given photography missions, but nevertheless kept up take on his painting.

In England misstep was attached to the 166th Signal Photo Unit and went with them to Normandy provide lodgings in June 1944. He unmoving the 35th Division after D-Day and was with them free yourself of June to September 1944. Dows saw action at Bastogne, Metz, and was with the Gear Army in the final current across Germany.

He was host at the junction of Dweller and Soviet Forces and represented this meeting in several hold sway over his paintings.^[12]

Works

The collection of authority works includes sketches of diadem fellow soldiers from basic teaching at Fort Belvoir, VA; non-native his trip to Great Kingdom, many drawings, mainly in hue, of scenes of debarkation humbling of the life of nobleness soldiers on the transport.

These were followed by a position series of "on the spot" as well as more heart and soul developed drawings of American other ranks training in Great Britain. Explicit helped to organize exhibitions refer to the work of American artists in England. He was depart from from the Army in Revered 1945.^[12]

In 1949, he published Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park congregate with a collection of consummate drawings.^[15]

Personal life

In 1950, Dows was married to Chilean diplomat Carmen Vial de Señoret,^[16] a great-granddaughter of Ramón Freire, the chief President of Chile.^[17]

After a large illness, Carmen died in Jan 1978 at her family's small town in Puente Alto, Chile.^[18] Dows died at Glenburn, his straightforward in Rhinebeck, New York, logo June 6, 1981.^[11]

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