Alfred Owles Print - Christmas Card B-17 Flying Fortress - ca. 1940s - RARE

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Alfred Owles Christmas Card
B-17 Flying Fortress 1940s
Offered is an Alfred Owles Christmas card, from the 1940's, never used. Card is about 7.5 x 6
inches. Actual print image measures, 6.75 x 5.25 inches. Rear of card is marked, "from the
Watercolor by Alfred Owles. American Artists Group, No.25368 Printed in U.S.A."
The actual print, I believe, is of the B-17 Flying Fortress flying over a snow covered
mountain range. Reverse of card has some surface abrasion due to having been removed
from an album page - only impacts the rear of the card and not the print which has been
tipped onto the front of the card. Some age toning of the inside of the card is noted.
Card inside reads, "Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year."
Alfred Owles was a painter and illustrator. He was born in Nottingham, England on July 4,
1894. Owles studied at the Nottingham Academy of Fine Art. He immigrated to the United
States shortly before the outbreak of World War I. During the war he served in the Army Air
Service as an aerial photographer and gunner. It was this experience that was to determine
the subject matter of his paintings.After the war Owles opened a studio in San Francisco, and
in 1924 moved across the Bay 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.
A rather rare example of Owles' WW II combat aircraft paintings.
Shipping and handling costs for all Continental U.S. areas is .00. Item will be safely
mailed in a book box - not a padded envelope.
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