Country Scene

Herb Owens Print, Country Scene

This painting shows a typical rural Adair County scene east of Greenfield.  This particular stretch of road shows the Jim and Phyllis Fox farm.

Herb Owens was a reporter for the Des Moines Tribune, a companion afternoon paper to the Des Moines Register.  He wrote the “Along the Way” column that featured stories about Iowa people in small towns.  After he retired in the early 1960’s, Owens took up painting.  Greenfield native Hugh Sidey, a Time magazine journalist who covered the White House for decades, commissioned Owens to paint a number of favorite local scenes. The Greenfield Chamber selected six of these paintings to reprint on watercolor paper.  Each print measures 11x14 inches and is unframed.