Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Aug. 14, 2022, is by Alfred Owles (1892-1978). "Grumman Panthers Breakaway", watercolor, ca 1950, $900.00.
The Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, August 14, 2022, is by British-born California artist Alfred Owles (1892-1978).
"Grumman Panthers Breakaway" is a watercolor by British-born California painter Alfred Owles (1892-1978). The image and paper measure 17-5/8 x 22-1/8 inches. The painting was done around 1950 and is signed in pigment in the lower right of the watercolor board and is titled in pencil on the verso. Our inventory number for this unique color drawing is 21712.
This painting by California painter Alfred Owles (1892-1978) is available from the gallery for $900.00. Contact the gallery with any condition reports or other questions.
Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law.Alfred Owles was born in Nottingham, England on July 4, 1892. Owles studied at the Nottingham Academy of Fine Art. He immigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War I. He enrolled in the Army Air Service in August of 1914 as an aerial photographer and gunner until his discharge in June of 1920. It was this experience that helped determine the subject matter of many of his paintings.
After the war Owles opened a studio in San Francisco, California and in 1924 moved across the Golden Gate to Marin County where he had homes in Fairfax and Novato. During the World War II years, his illustrations appeared in Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers magazines. His most famous painting was "Satan's Pipe Organ", a World War II canvas that portrayed anti-aircraft guns pointed skyward.
He continued to illustrate for various sources for decades, specializing in aircraft. In this watercolor he captures a "breakaway" of three F9F Grumman Panthers with the sequential numbers of 119, 120 and 121.
It was Grumman's first fighter jet and 1,382 were produced between 1947 and 1948. The Panther was used extensively by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the Korean War. It was also the first jet aircraft used by the Blue Angels flight team, used by them from 1949 through late 1954. The aircraft was exported to Argentina and was the first jet used by the Argentine Naval Aviation.
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