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Drawings by cartoonist Robert Day in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

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Title: Drawings by cartoonist Robert Day in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921
Contributor: Day, Robert James, $d 1900-1985
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1921
1921-06
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Robert Day was born in California, worked in the art department of the Los Angeles Times from 1919-1927 while a student at the Otis Art Institute, and went on to become a cartoonist. Among other accomplishments, he published more than 1800 cartoons in the New Yorker from 1931-1976 and created 8 New Yorker covers.
Photograph of 7 drawings by cartoonist Robert Day and 3 drawings in the bottom row by another student in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition
There were 2 exhibitions of art by Otis Art Institute students in June 1921, one at the Otis Art Institute and another in the Museum of History in Exposition Park.
Text from negative sleeve: Otis Art Institute
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2676
ark:/21198/zz002dcgt5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Art exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Drawings
Otis Art Institute
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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