George Demont Otis (1879 - 1962) American
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 4 1/4"in H x 6 1/2"in W and 11 3/4"in H x 13 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Landscape, seascape and still life painting, teaching
Biography: George de Mont Otis brought a group of students to Morro Bay in 1926's Brush Stirs Memories: Harmonics of George Demont Otis Reveal Secret Charm of Morro by Fred Hogue, LAT, Aug. 19, 1928, p. C 24, and article states, reviewer went to the Stendahl Galleries at the Ambassador to an exhibit of California landscapes and seascapes, many of Morro Bay, by Otis looked at one canvas Flowering Sands and Sapphire Otis is a genius, alike in his selection of subjects and in color and technique Silvery is a sunrise on Morro Bay. In the background is helmet-shaped Morro rock, laved by blue-green swaying tides. In the middle ground is the old Portuguese fishing wharf, and in the foreground striped by shadows of the swaying Portuguese gums, is the red roof of Silva wharf. Another landscape is rich in the plume-shaped Australian eucalypt In another canvas are the last gay remnants of autumns go. Otis is a distinctive coloris. His studio at Burbank is a rendezvous of kindred spirits, a refuge from ennui"

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