George Demont Otis

George Demont Otis (1879 - 1962) was an American landscape painter.

George Demont Otis was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on 21 September 1879. He was orphaned at the age of six, and was sent to live following an aunt in Sedalia, Missouri. When he twelve, he was placed considering a family in Chicago.

He began his artistic education at the age of fourteen, at the Chicago Fine Art Academy, and continued it in Philadelphia and New York. He as well as had a quick career in baseball, in Nashville and Memphis, using his earnings to finance his art training. Otis returned to Chicago in 1900 and spent the bordering fourteen years there, teaching, restoring and designing for drama at the Opera House and new venues.

Following an disorder in 1916 he moved to Colorado, and set taking place a studio at Estes Park. While based there, he plus painted landscapes in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, and scenes of the daily cartoon of the original peoples of the Southwest.

In 1924 he moved to Burbank, California, where he worked as a Hollywood scene designer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He abandoned his behave there abruptly, and spent some era traveling with insinuation to the Southwest before, settling in San Francisco. He married in 1931. Over the next-door couple of years, he and his wife spent the summers in Nevada, painting and selling his pictures from a wooden stand. He spent the descend of his spirit in Kentfield, California.