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George Demont Otis is pictured with three
of his paintings of Southern California scenes which bring greater
international recognition to Los Angeles art. At left is “The
Waning Year,” which won honorable mention in the Western
Painters’ exhibit at Chicago. At right is an “Old
Spanish Home” near San Fernando mission. This picture is
on exhibition at the Artland Club here. Below is “Women’s
Club at Laguna Beach,” prize winner at the state fair.
Artist’s
Pictures of Scenes Near L.A. Gain World Wide Recognition
Stimulus
has been given Southern California art in gaining international
recognition through the announ-cement that George Demont Otis
has recently received a signal honor by having a canvas, which
was exhibited at the thirty-ninth annual exhibit of the Society
of American Artists at the Chicago Art Institute, purchased
to hang in the Municipal Art Collection of the Chicago Art Institute.
George Demont Otis studied at the New York Academy of Design,
New York Cooper Institute, Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago
Art Institute, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, John F. Carlson
Institute, Walter Chute Studio, Chicago and others.
He
lists among his memberships the following: Painters’ and
Sculptors’ Club, Palette and Chisel Club, Chicago; Kit-Kat
Club, New York; Cliff Dwellers, New York; Painters of the Forest
Reserves, Chicago; Chicago Society of Artists, American Society
of Artists, Western Artists, Chicago; Independent Society of
Artists, Chicago; Independent Society of Artists, New York;
Art Students league, Chicago; Glendale Art Association, Laguna
Beach Art Association and Painters and Sculptors Club of Los
Angeles.
Mr.
Otis has paintings hanging in the following collections:
The
noted Cheney Collection, New York; Kahn Collection, Chicago;
Municipal Collection, Chicago Art Institute; Carnegie Collection,
Colorado; Doheney Collection, Los Angeles; F. H. Freytag Collection,
Los Angeles; Michael Cohen Collection, Chicago; Polacheck Collection,
Chicago and New York; H. W. Johns Collection, Los Angeles; Anaheim
Women’s Club; Ben Thorpe Collection, Corona; Uplifters
Collection, Los Angeles; Elks Club, Meshenge, Michigan; Louis
Collection, Beverly Hills; Bilberson Collection, Beverly Hills;
Hachley Collection, Hollywood; Masonic Club, Tripp Collection
and Lyons, Colorado.
SHOW
CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES
Mr.
Otis for many years has been showing California landscapes in
exhibits throughout the world. He came to this state after having
spent many years painting eastern and midwestern scenes. He
has won many honors with his striking views of Colorado scenes,
having spent more than a year in the Berkshire and White Plains
Country, and in the Colorado Mountains, the wild inspiring scenes
of which he faithfully put on canvas.
Mr.
Otis’ Mountain scenes are considered exceptionally striking,
the great sandstone cliffs and canyons and wild mountain effects
give wonderful opportunity for color and life.
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These paintings include the “Old Buena Mine” Long Peak,
“Boulder Falls” and “Spirit of the Cliffs”
which acquired its name because of a spirit likeness in the clouds
in the background of the picture. This painting hangs in the Capitol
building in Denver.
Mr.
Otis came to Los Angeles to make a few paintings. He became
enraptured with the wonderful climate, which permits outdoors
painting the year around and found the scenery in Southern California
the most beautiful he had seen in all his wanderings in America.
PRAISES
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Commenting
on the wonderful mountain ranges and attractive foliage near
Los Angeles, Mr. Otis said he is interested to a marked degree,
in Southern California because of the glorious places to paint
that are not available elsewhere. “In other parts of the
world an artist would have to travel thousands of miles to find
as wide a range of subjects as we have within a few miles of
Los Angeles.” Mr. Otis said today.
Mr.
Otis is exhibiting at the Artland Club a painting of an old
adobe house near the San Fernando Mission. A recently completed
painting hanging in the Anaheim Library is typical of the picturesque
coast line near Eslboa.
The old San Fernando house belonged to a Spanish nobleman and
was considered a fine mansion in the early ‘80s. The structure
was built by the early hand laboring type of Indian mason, the
brick of the adobe being molded from the ground about which
this huge building stands. The tremendous strength and durability
of the casa proved the precision in construction, for it is
still in a fair state of preservation.
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