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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.