1953 Listed OLIN DOWS Gouache HILLSIDE LANDSCAPE Signed NEW YORK WWII ARTIST
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ORIGINAL 1953 LANDSCAPE PAINTING BY OLIN DOWS (1904 - 1981). Excellent condition, gouache on heavy paper. Frame measures 24" by 30" with a mat opening of 14" by 21 1/2". Signed and dated lower right. Interesting composition with twisted flowering trees and buildings perched on a rocky hillside. Auction results for paintings by Dows include an Oil sold by Stair Galleries for $9000 in 2007 and a Gouache which sold for $3300 by Sothebys in 2005.Olin Dows (1904 - 1981) was born in Irvington-on Hudson and in 1906 moved to a large farmhouse on the Hudson River just below Rhinebeck, New York where he lived for much of his life when not in Washington, D.C. and Pirque, Chile. By his own admission he wanted to paint from the time he was twelve years old and admired artists including Maxwell Parrish, Frederick Remington, Augustus John, Charles Dana Gibson, William Blake, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Dows was very influenced by the folding screens of Robert W. Chanler, who was raised at Rokeby in Germantown, N.Y. His family's close friendship with President Roosevelt's family in Hyde Park, recurred as an important factor in his career.Dows attended Harvard College from 1922 to 1925 and studied art, architectural drawing at MIT and drew portraits and made screens in his dorm room. Within three years he transferred, after a sojourn in Paris
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