Amy Otis

Mary Amy Otis (1863–1950) was an American miniaturist.

Otis was a native of Sherwood, New York, and was born to a family of Quakers. Her parents had migrated to the area at different times from Massachusetts, and had seven other children, six surviving; among them was Susan, who later became a noted physician in Cayuga County. Her grandfather was Job Otis, Amy studied at Cornell University and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, and was a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She also studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. For some years she was active as a portraitist in Philadelphia, where she also taught art at Miss Capen's School for Girls from 1911 to 1914. she began work a professor at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, Otis retired from Wheaton in 1932. After leaving Wheaton she taught for a time at Wells College, where she was at one point acting head of the Department of Art.

During her career Otis exhibited work throughout the United States. She was a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, and The Plastic Club, and was a sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Otis was the aunt of painter Elizabeth Otis Dunn and illustrator Samuel Davis Otis, by the Class of 1931 after her death.