Stephen Olin Dows (August 14, 1904 – June 6, 1981) was a United States Army artist who served in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
[8] His maternal aunt was author and Baháʼí Julia Lynch Olin (who married former Lieutenant Governor of New York, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler).
His eight selectees turned in 73 pictures which were shown in a Soldiers of Production exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.[12] Olin Dows enlisted in the U.S. Army in June 1942.
Stationed at Fort Meade, MD, waiting to be sent to Officers training school, Dows gave up this opportunity to go instead to the European Theater of Operations as a war artist.
These were followed by a third series of "on the spot" as well as more fully developed drawings of American soldiers training in Great Britain.
[15] In 1950, Dows was married to Chilean diplomat Carmen Vial de Señoret,[16] a great-granddaughter of Ramón Freire, the first President of Chile.