Alan Stenhouse Gourley (13 April 1909 – 9 September 1991) was a South African-British painter and stained glass artist. He attended the

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; ) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design. These are all awa ...

in 1928 and the

Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, histor ...

between 1929 and 1931. He moved to South Africa where he created stained glass windows for cathedrals in Pretoria and Johannesburg and taught at Johannesburg Technical College between 1932 and 1937. He then moved to Paris where he studied at the

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between 1938 and 1940 and was instructor in camouflage during the

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. A carpet designed by him is located at

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. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

representing South Africa.

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