biography of Otis DOZIER (1904-1987)

Birth place: Forney, TX

Death place: Dallas, TX?

Addresses: Dallas, TX, 1976

Profession: Landscape and genre painter, lithographer, muralist

Studied: Anspaugh Art School, Dallas; Colorado Springs FA Center, 1937 (scholarship); with Boardman Robinson, 1945-49

Exhibited: "Dallas Nine," 1932; Texas State Fair Exhib., 1933; Dallas Allied Artists, 1932 (Kiest Purchase Prize), 1935, 1937 & 1946; Southwestern Art Assn., 1948 (prize); New Orleans Arts & Crafts, 1948 (prize); MoMA traveling exhib., 1933; Texas Centennial Expo, 1936; Lawrence Art Gal., Dallas, 1936; GGE, 1939; Denver Art Mus., 1943 (prize); AIC,1944, 1946; WMAA, 1940, 1945; Carnegie Inst., 1946; Pasadena, CA, 1946; Dallas Allied Artists, 1946; solo shows, Witte Mem. Mus., 1948; Corcoran Gal, 1951, 1953; Dallas Mus. Fine Arts, 1956.

Member: Dallas AA; Lone Star Printmakers

Work: Univ. Nebraska; Dallas Mus. Fine Arts; Denver Art Mus.; Metrop. Mus. of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum; Newark Mus.; A. & M. College, Bryan; Witte Mus.; Mus. FA, Houston. Commissions: WPA murals, US Post Offices, Arlington, Giddings & Fredericksburg, TX.

Comments: A painter of rural scenes and one of the Dallas Nine", an influential group of regional artists in Texas in the 1930s. Teaching: Colorado Springs FA Center, 1939-45; Dallas MFA, 1945-69.

Sources: WW73; WW47; P&H Samuels, 143; Stewart, Lone Star Regionalism, 164-67 (w/repros.)"