Hubert Julian "Jay" Stowitts

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.

[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.