About Otis Oldfield
Lived 1890 – 1969 (aged 78). Otis Oldfield was an American painter, teacher, muralist and printmaker.
Otis William Oldfield (July 3, 1890 – May 18, 1969) He attended Sutter High School but at age 16 he dropped out of school in order to work.
In 1908, he attended Best’s Art School in San Francisco, operated by Alice Leveque Best and Arthur William Best. In 1911, he moved to Paris to attend Académie Julian.
The following year in 1930, Oldfield worked with architect Timothy Pflueger to create painted windows for the bar at the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. One of his frescos there is titled Shipping Activities Inside the Golden Gate.
Teaching Starting in 1925, he taught at California School of Fine Art (now San Francisco Art Institute) painting and drawing courses.
Oldfield's students included Yun Gee, Richard Diebenkorn, Death and legacy Oldfield died on May 18, 1969, in San Francisco, California. Crocker Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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Who was Otis Oldfield?
San Francisco painter, printmaker and art educator. (1890–1969)
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Otis Oldfield was born on 3 July 1890 in Sacramento, California.
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Otis Oldfield died on 18 May 1969 in San Francisco.
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Otis Oldfield was a painter, teacher, muralist and printmaker.
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Otis Oldfield was American.
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