Otis, Fessenden N. (Fessenden Nott), 1825-1900 |
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1825-1900 |
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Ballston, NY; |
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Dr. Fessenden Nott Otis was a physician (professor, College of Physicians and Surgeons, NYC), and art collector.
Otis collected modern American paintings and Japanese bronzes. The collection included work by, among others, Asher B. Durand, Albert Bierstadt, William P. Babcock, William Page, Homer D. Martin, L. A. Lanthier, John Frederick Kensett, Seymour Joseph Guy, Horace Wolcott Robbins, Worthington Whittredge, Jervis McEntee, Frederick E. Church, William H. Beard, H. Belton Jones, Fedor Encke, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Elihu Vedder, and J. B. Bristol.
The collection was sold at an auction on Friday December 4-5, 1890, via the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries.
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decades
of activity | 1860-1870
1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
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Pierpont Morgan Library Archives
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street |
Autograph letters signed : Florence, Yokohama, and an unidentified city, to Dr. Baldwin, 1891 June 20, July 10 and Mar. 9, [n.d.]. |
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The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road |
The Jay T. Last Collection of Maritime Prints and Ephemera |
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