Born in Scotland in
1868, Gordon Coutts began his art studies in Glasgow and continued them in
London and in Paris at the Julian Academy under Jules Lefebvre.
He traveled
extensively to Australia and remote parts of Africa. In the early Twentieth Century he moved to California where
he became a member of the Bohemian Club. In 1925 he moved to Palm Springs and built a Moorish style home that is now the
Hotel Korakia.
He was married to musician,
painter and singer Gertrude Coutts for the last sixteen years of his life, and
was survived by his daughters Mary and Jeane, also artists. He died on February
21st, 1937.
(Information
for this artist provided in part by Jeane Granada Coutts, daughter to Gordon
Coutts).