Otis Art Institute, a School of Fine and Applied Arts Maintained by the County of Los Angeles as a Department of the Los Angeles Museum, [1936-1937 Catalogue]
The course in Painting furnishes a thorough groundwork in Drajwirg end
sign in order that the student may deal intelligently and powerfully with the
problems of Portrait, Still Life, Landscape and Mural Painting Basic r.eressi
ties of this preparation are appreciation of form, development cf the faculties
of selection, arrangement and vision. Included are studies 1o c eve lop tone
value and quality, construction, proportion, character and actijr. of the fig|ir|e,
and the creative inspirational use of nature.
The first year work requires exercise in Beginning Drawing, )isgi, (Joirp>
sition. and Sketching from the Figure. Available also are [the lpqtvlreas pn
Anatomy and Art Appreciation. The student is started in color
ing ability has advanced to a point satisfactory to the head of Ms
The second year is devoted to Drawing and Painting from tti6 l-lgurje
vanced Composition—leading to a determination by the student pf his] #dpr-
ticular field of endeavor.
The third year gives the student further opportunity to major in his
of work. Six great divisions of Painting lie before him. Painting
Still Life, Portrait, Landscape, Mural and Illustration
The school realizing that the young painter or illustrator going
exacting public must include in his equipment ideas and an
nique for their expression, surrounds him with every fine anc
influence to this end.
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