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Joyce Creighton with her work "Reclining Figure" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1944

Date:: June 9, 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Designs by Laura Owen at an Otis Art Institute student exhibition at the Los Angles Museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1934

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

Drawings of nudes in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

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

Painting of a nude by Fanny Darling when she was a student at Otis ARt Institute, Los Angeles, circa 1934

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

Artist Dorothy Jeakins sketching a portrait of artist Will James Los Angeles, 1934-1939

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

Interior of the Otis Art Institute during a student exhibition (?), Los Angeles, between 1918-1939

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

Stylized landscape painting and decorative metalwork objects by a Otis Art Institute students, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

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

Still life painting by an Otis Art Institute student, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

Date:: [between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Paintings and drawings of nudes in the Otis Art Institute student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

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

Art work in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

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

Paintings on a wall by an Otis Art Institute student, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

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

Otis Art Institute students with posters created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

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

Benji Okubo receiving an award from J. Y. Blaikie for a poster that he created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

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

Sculpture of a seated female nude by an Otis Art Institute student, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

Date:: [between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Drawings by cartoonist Robert Day in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

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

Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

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

Furniture drawings in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition, Los Angeles, [1918-1939]

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

Drawings in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

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

Painting by Virginia Perdue at an Otis Art Institute student exhibition at the Los Angles Museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1934

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

Otis Art Institute student mounting a charcoal drawing on a wall, Los Angeles, 1933

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

Otis Art Institute student Grace Mallon adjusts mask on fellow student Miriam Hazard before the annual student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1933

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

Dorothy Jeakins, Otis Art Institute award winner, with a fashion illustration, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Photograph of Otis Art Institute student, Dorothy Jeakins, seated and working on a fashion illustration on a board in her lap with the caption "Peasant Manteau."
Date:: June 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Pirate painting by an unidentified 11 year old boy in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition at the Los Angles Museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1934

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

Painting by Henry Lion at an Otis Art Institute student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1920-1924

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

Dorothy Jeakins, Otis Art Institute award winner, with a fashion illustration, Los Angeles, 1934

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

Portrait painting of a man by Virginia Perdue at an Otis Art Institute student exhibition at the Los Angles Museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: This photograph is related to the newspaper 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

Art work in an Otis Art Institute student exhibition, Los Angeles, [1918-1930]

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

Otis Art Institute student working on a painting, Los Angeles, 1933

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

Actress Olive Young at the Otis Art Institute or the Elks Lodge No. 99, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Olive Young seated in front of wood paneling, in damask dress
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Olive Young in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Olive Young standing under bamboo gate with lanterns
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Rosemary Chew in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Rosemary Chew standing in front of bamboo gate with lanterns
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Rosemary Chew and Olive Young in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench near bamboo structure in the garden of the Otis Art Institute
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Rosemary Chew and Olive Young, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench under bamboo structure with lanterns
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Rosemary Chew at the Otis Art Institute or the Elks Lodge No. 99, Los Angeles, 1928

Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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