1890
by Ottinger, George
1890. Original painting [17 5/8" x 12 2/8"] in a frame [25 1/8" x 19 6/8"]. In pen on the reverse: "South of Salt Lake City. G. M. Ottinger- painter." A painting which is impressionistic in style, and which appears to have the Wasatch mountains in the background.
George Martin Ottinger (1833-1917) is considered among Utah's most prominent artists. After experiencing a tumultuous childhood and wandering extensively while employed as a young sailor, Ottinger briefly enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he set himself up as a painter of miniatures. In 1861, Ottinger and his mother, both converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, journeyed west by covered wagon to Utah. In Utah, he painted scenery for the Salt Lake Theatre, was involved in the founding and ten-month life of the Deseret Academy of Fine Arts, and continued his previous career as a photo-tinter in partnership with Charles Roscoe Savage, a well known English photographer in the Salt Lake Valley since 1860. In 1881, he helped assemble the Salt Lake Art Association, and in partnership with Alice Merrill Horne, initiated the Alice Art Collection, predecessor of the Utah Art Institute. He was also a member of the University of Deseret faculty through the 1880s and into the '90s. (Information from an edited entry from the "Dictionary of Utah Art" (1980) published in "Artists of Utah" by Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999). (Inventory #: 69478)
George Martin Ottinger (1833-1917) is considered among Utah's most prominent artists. After experiencing a tumultuous childhood and wandering extensively while employed as a young sailor, Ottinger briefly enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he set himself up as a painter of miniatures. In 1861, Ottinger and his mother, both converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, journeyed west by covered wagon to Utah. In Utah, he painted scenery for the Salt Lake Theatre, was involved in the founding and ten-month life of the Deseret Academy of Fine Arts, and continued his previous career as a photo-tinter in partnership with Charles Roscoe Savage, a well known English photographer in the Salt Lake Valley since 1860. In 1881, he helped assemble the Salt Lake Art Association, and in partnership with Alice Merrill Horne, initiated the Alice Art Collection, predecessor of the Utah Art Institute. He was also a member of the University of Deseret faculty through the 1880s and into the '90s. (Information from an edited entry from the "Dictionary of Utah Art" (1980) published in "Artists of Utah" by Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999). (Inventory #: 69478)
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