Orlando Gray Wales

Orlando Gray Wales (also O.G. Wales) (1865–1933) was an American landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist who lived and painted in Allentown and the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Wales was considered to be one of the best still-life artists of the day.

Wales was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts following William Merritt Chase and Alphonse Mucha.^{[citation needed]}

He first exhibited in 1912 at the studio of fellow painter (and photographer) Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth. A Wales painting was one of the first 110 works acquired and exhibited by the Allentown Art Museum on its initiation in 1936.^{[citation needed]}

He maintained a studio at Tenth and Hamilton Streets in Allentown.

As a teacher, his students included John E. Berninger and Clarence Dreisbach. Wales maintained a lifelong friendship later illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer, who was afterward raised in Allentown and then studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.