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American painter
Dancers Ruth Page and Hubert Stowitts, from a 1923 magazine

Hubert Julian "Jay" Stowitts was an American painter and ballet dancer.

Jay Stowitts was born on June 26, 1892, in Rushville, Nebraska. His family moved to Los Angeles and Stowitts attended the University of California, Berkeley, from 1911 to 1915. At Cal he was captain of the track team. He joined the dance company of Anna Pavlova and toured the world with her, performing in works such as La Peri.

For the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Stowitts painted a series of nudes with Olympic athletes such as Woody Strode, Briggs Hunt, William Golden, Bobby Riggs, and Frank Kurtz.

Stowitts died in 1953.

References

  1. Aldrich, Robert (2008-01-28). Colonialism and Homosexuality. Routledge. p. 355. ISBN 9781134644599. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  2. "The Stowitts Museum & Library - About Stowitts". www.stowitts.org. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  3. "Gay Bears: Hubert Stowitts". vm136.lib.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  4. Boone, Joseph A. (2014-02-25). The Homoerotics of Orientalism. Columbia University Press. p. 388. ISBN 9780231521826. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  5. "[Anna Pavlova and Hubert Stowitts in La Peri] (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  6. "QAR Artist Page: Stowitts: Paintings 2". www.queer-arts.org. Retrieved 2016-04-05.

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