Orlando Gray Wales
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Orlando Gray Wales (also O.G. Wales) (1865-1933) was an American landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist that lived and painted in Allentown, Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley region of the United States.
Wales was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with William Merritt Chase and Alphonse Mucha.
He first exhibited in 1912 at the studio of fellow painter (and photographer) Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth. A Wales' paintings was one of the first 110 works acquired and exhibited by the Allentown Art Museum upon their opening in 1936.
As a teacher, his students included John E. Berninger and Clarence Dreisbach.
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