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 1911-1915. 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 External links http://www.stowitts.org/about.html Hubert Stowitts at Gay Bears The art of Hubert Stowitts 20th-century American painters 20th-century American ballet dancers Gay artists LGBT dancers 1892 births 1953 deaths