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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 Otis Art Institute graduate student Grace Mallon adjusting a mask on fellow student Miriam Hazard. The photograph appears with an article about the annual student art exhibition and end of the year festivities, including a costume ball titled "The Carnival of Abstraction."
Date:: June 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a female Otis Art Institute student mounting a charcoal drawing showing an Asian woman next to paper lanterns on a wall with a hammer and nail.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of 8 Otis Art Institute students holding posters designed to promote attendance at the California Botanic Garden with award winner Benji Okubo on the left. Each poster has an illustration of trees or plants with the caption "Visit The California Botanic Garden." The students are standing on a lawn in front of a stand of palm and other trees at the Otis Art Institute, then located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd.
Date:: March 15, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The California Botanic Garden in Mandeville Canyon opened in 1928. The garden closed in 1935 due to financial difficulties brought on by the Great Depression.
Date:: March 15, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of an Otis Art Institute student seated with a painting on a board in her lap and holding a paint brush. There are paintings on the wall in the background.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry Lion was a Los Angeles sculptor who attended the Otis Art Institute from 1920-1924. He completed many public commissions for modernist and traditional bronze and stone works.
Date:: [1920-1924]
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:: The inscription on the painting probably refers to Fanny Fern Crandall Darling, who was studying at the Otis Art Institute in about 1934.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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