Subject: Otis Art Institute / Language: No linguistic content / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Otis Art Institute / Date: 1921 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: There were 2 exhibitions of art by Otis Art Institute students in June 1921, one at the Otis Art Institute and another in the Museum of History in Exposition Park.
Date:: June 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the interior of a stately house, probably the 1898 house of General Harrison Grey Otis, which became the Otis Art Institute in 1918 (located at 2410 Wilshire Blvd.). There is carved chest supporting a floral bouquet in front of a fireplace with a carved stone mantle. In the room beyond there appears to be art work on exhibition.
Date:: [between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a stylized landscape painting by an Otis Art Institute student, with a view towards a lawn and house from a front gate. The painting is on a wall above a table covered with fabric and holding a footed metal bowl flanked by decorative metal candle holders and small paintings in decorative metal frames.
Date:: [between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of paintings and drawings of nudes in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition. The center drawing is probably by the Italian artist, then student, Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano.
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of art work in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition including a design for an advertisement for the Rudolph Valentino film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which opened in 1921.
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of 3 paintings Otis Art Institute students on a wall. The larger center painting shows a Viking type ship with a sail in water seen from a cliff with steep mountains in the background.
Date:: [between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Robert Day was born in California, worked in the art department of the Los Angeles Times from 1919-1927 while a student at the Otis Art Institute, and went on to become a cartoonist. Among other accomplishments, he published more than 1800 cartoons in the New Yorker from 1931-1976 and created 8 New Yorker covers.
Date:: June 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of drawings of furniture, mostly chairs, in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition
Date:: [between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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