Alfred Owles Art

Alfred Owles (Born July 4, 1894) was a noted painter of aircraft. Before he immigrated to the United States, he studied at Nottingham Academy of Fine Art. The outbreak of World War I found him in the US. During the war he served as an aerial photographer and gunner in the Army Air Service. This experience was to determine the subject matter of his future paintings. After World War I he opened a studio in San Francisco and six years later he moved across the bay to Marin County where he had homes in Novato and Fairfax. In the late 1930s to mid-1940s, his illustrations appeared in Colliers, Look, Life, Saturday, Evening Post. His most prominent painting being the Satan's Pipe Organ, a canvas in which he painted anti-aircraft guns pointing upwards. During his early career Owles was primarily a watercolorist, specializing in illustrations of airplanes; however, in his later years he painted landscapes of Marin County. His works are held at the Pentagon (Washington, DC) and at the U.S. Air Force Training Command and Academy (Colorado Springs). He exhibited in Maxwell Gallery (San Francisco), Gump's (San Francisco), Ambassador Hotel (Hollywood), Ilsley Gallery (Los Angeles), Stendahl Gallery (Los Angeles), and San Diego Fine Arts Gallery. In San Francisco, Owles shared a studio with Wes Carscaden, the noted illustrator. He did a series of aircraft paintings during the late 1950s for the Standard Oil Company. The paintings were used in their advertisements in LIFE Magazine. Currently, framed Alfred Owles art are in great demand globally.