George Demont Otis: 10 interesting facts

George Demont Otis (1879 – 1962) was an American landscape painter.

George Demont Otis was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on 21 September 1879. He was orphaned at the age of six, and was sent to live as soon as an aunt in Sedalia, Missouri. When he twelve, he was placed subsequently a family in Chicago.

He began his artistic education at the age of fourteen, at the Chicago Fine Art Academy, and continued it in Philadelphia and New York. He then had a rude career in baseball, in Nashville and Memphis, using his earnings to finance his art training. Otis returned to Chicago in 1900 and spent the next-door fourteen years there, teaching, restoring and designing for stand-in at the Opera House and additional venues.

Following an sickness in 1916 he moved to Colorado, and set happening a studio at Estes Park. While based there, he also painted landscapes in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, and scenes of the daily spirit of the original peoples of the Southwest.

In 1924 he moved to Burbank, California, where he worked as a Hollywood scene designer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He forlorn his perform there abruptly, and spent some become old traveling roughly speaking the Southwest before, settling in San Francisco. He married in 1931. Over the bordering couple of years, he and his wife spent the summers in Nevada, painting and selling his pictures from a wooden stand. He spent the perch of his energy in Kentfield, California.