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Description:: Will James (born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault) was an artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal.
Date:: March 29, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of art work in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition, perhaps illustrations for advertisements
Date:: [between 1918-1930]
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:: Benji Okubo, born in Riverside, was a renowned painter of Japanese ancestry. A graduate of Otis Art Institute (1929), he was active in Los Angeles from the 20's through the 40's. Incarcerated in 1942 in Heart Mountain for the duration of the war, Okubo continued to paint and to teach art classes to fellow inmates. After the war, Okubo returned to Los Angeles with his wife, Chisato, and supported his family as a successful landscape architect. While Okubo continued to paint, his professional career in art did not resume its pre-war level of activity and recognition.
Date:: March 15, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article "Otis Art Institute Exhibit Rich in Promise for Future." Los Angeles Times 8 Jul. 1934: A8
Date:: July 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is related to the article "Young Artist Given Award: Miss Dorothy Jeakins Gets Honor at Otis Institute. Fall-Term Scholarship Won by Excellence of Work." Los Angeles Times, 24 Jun. 1934: 18
Date:: June 1934
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 portrait and figure drawings by Otis Art Institute students in an exhibition.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: 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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