Photos: A Bevo Mill artist's studio
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
Artwork on display in a guest bedroom in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The painting on the left is by Ottinger and the drawing on the right is by Patty Vineyard. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
David is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment.
Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The studio space in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's home in Bevo Mill on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
An inscribed paintbrush is on display in a guest bedroom of David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and former professor of art at McKendree University. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
Mary Beth and David Ottinger pose for a portrait in their Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The kitchen in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The studio space in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's home in Bevo Mill on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The studio space in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's home in Bevo Mill on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The studio space in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's home in Bevo Mill on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
An early painting by artist Rosa Lee Lovell hangs in the hallway opposite the master bedroom. In 2018, Lovell’s graphic work was featured in the show "Graphic Revolution" at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
Mary Beth and David Ottinger pose for a portrait in their Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
Mary Beth showcases fine glass, crystal and fine china in a lighted china cabinet in their dining room. “I have my mother’s set of pink china decorated with gold,” she says. “We bought this dining room set from an older couple in Sunset Hills who were going into a retirement home. We could tell the woman was sad to see it go. She said, ‘You have to have parties, and feed a lot of people around this table’ and we do.”
Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The living room of David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
David’s thesis painting from the 1970s was done under painter and thesis advisor Arthur Osver. Artist Ken Worley is the figure painted in the foreground. One of David’s portraits of Mary Beth hangs between the windows. A Noguchi glass and wood table sits in the foreground of the photo.
Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The studio space in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's home in Bevo Mill on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The dining room and living room of David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The studio space in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's home in Bevo Mill on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The second floor is an apartment. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
A watercolor by David of a horn hangs above the bed in the recently completed front bedroom that looks out on Gravois.
Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
A guest bedroom in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
David’s 2015 oil painting, "The Patriot," is perfectly placed on the long horizontal wall over the stairwell. One of his watercolors of a horn hangs above the stairs. The large green pot on the floor at the right of the stairwell is by Anthony Borchardt.
Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
At Home with David and Mary Beth Ottinger in Bevo Mill artist's studio
The upstairs hallway in David and Mary Beth Ottinger's Bevo Mill home on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. David Ottinger is a painter and uses the first floor of the home as his studio. The painting was done by David's son, Christopher. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com.
The clean and classic lines of the 1940s woodwork accent the art, furniture and the style the Ottingers cultivated over the years.