Hubert Julian "Jay" Stowitts was an American painter[1] and ballet dancer.
Jay Stowitts was born on June 26, 1892, in Rushville, Nebraska.[2] 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.[3] He joined the dance company of Anna Pavlova and toured the world with her,[4] performing in works such as La Peri.[5]
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.[6]
Stowitts died in 1953.
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