Orlando Gray Wales
Orlando Gray Wales (also O.G. Wales; 1865 – December 30, 1933)[1] was an American landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist who lived and painted in Allentown and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Wales was considered to be one of the best still-life artists of his day.[2][3]
Early life and education
Wales was born in Philadelphia in 1865.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He studied with William Merritt Chase and Alphonse Mucha at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[3][4]
Career
Wales first exhibited in 1912 at the studio of fellow painter and photographer Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth. His painting was one of the first 110 works acquired and exhibited by the Allentown Art Museum upon its opening in 1936.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He maintained an art studio at Tenth and Hamilton streets in Allentown.[2]
As a teacher, his students included John E. Berninger, and Clarence I. Dresibach.[5][6] Wales maintained a lifelong friendship with illustrator, painter, and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer,[2][4] who was also raised in Allentown and also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was the executer of Wales estate after his death in 1933.[7]
References
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External links
- "Orlando Gray Wales" at Find a Grave
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- 1865 births
- 1933 deaths
- 19th-century American male artists
- 19th-century American painters
- 20th-century American male artists
- 20th-century American painters
- American Impressionist painters
- Artists from Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Painters from Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni