Jack Otterson

Jack Otterson, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1908 was educated at Hotchkiss Preparatory School and the Art Students League, New York. Yale School of Fine Arts, B.F.A; Paris Beaux Art School. Awarded the John Weir scholarship at Yale for 1927-28; won honorable mention in award of Alvord Scholarship for 1928-29. Special honorable mention in the Prix de Rome. National scholarship in 1928-29, and honorable mention in award of William Winchester Fellowship, 1929-30. Assisted on decorative designs on the Empire State Building, New York City; decorative designs in New York Architectural League Catalogue in 1929. In 1932, started as sketch artist with Fox Studios, then became assistant art director and then supervising art director. Moved to Universal Picrures Corporation in 1936 as Supervising Art Director. And not once on any film in which he was credited or uncredited was he listed as a Production Designer, no matter what film-history revisionists think...or write.