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A quintessential American artist, George Demont Otis was determined that his impressionist landscapes be purely American statements. For this reason he studied only at art schools in the united states and painted only on the American continent. He loved America's diversity, and during his career worked in 38 of the 50 states.
Otis was born in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of fourteen he won a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago that was followed by studies at the Cooper-Union in New York, the Pennsylvania academy and private studies with celebrated landscape painter Thomas Moran. In the 1920s he moved west where he spent several years as a scene designer for MGM studios. He eventually settled in Marin county where he opened a studio and painted until his death in 1962.
Deeply influenced by Winslow Homer and George Innes, Otis believed as they did that complete mastery of drawing was an indispensable prerequisite for any accomplished painter, a belief that is clearly evident in his own work.