Background
Betts was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father was an artist who remarried after Louis" mother died.
Betts was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father was an artist who remarried after Louis" mother died.
Studied Philadelphia Academy Fine Arts and in Paris and London.
Represented in Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago. Corcoran Gallery; Toledo Museum Artist Montclair Museum Artist
Richmond Art Association.
Arkansas Art Museum; Concordia Teachers College. Century Association; National Gallery, Washington.
Joslyn Gallery, Omaha. Herron The Art Institute of Chicago, Indianapolis.
Fine Arts Museum, Dallas, Texas.
Portraits: Doctorates Charles and William Mayo. George Eastman, Conservatory Music, Rochester, New New York
Martin A. Ryerson, Frank Logan, West. M. R. French, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago.
East. Doctorate. Hulbert, Ernest A. Hamill, Orson Smith, George M. Reynolds, John G. Mitchell, Cardinal Mundelein, Rabbi Hirsch, Chicago. Doctor T. West. Goodspeed, Charles L. Hutchinson, Mr. and Mistress LaVerna Noyes, Bachelor of Arts Eckhart, Doctor Frank West. Gunsaulos, University of Chicago. Franklin K. Lane, Washington.
Jacob M. Dickinson, George Peabody College.
William O. Goodman, Goodman Theatre, Chicago. Major Millsaps, Millsaps College.
Thomas East. Donnelley, Chicago. John G. Shedd, Chicago.
John South. Washburn, Minnesota.
Edward F. Swift, Chicago. Michael Cudahy, Chicago. James Hamilton Lewis, United States Capitol, Washington.
Also Illinois State Capitol at Springfield.
Mr. and Mistress R. H. Norton, The Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida Awards: Cresson scholarship prize, 1902. Member National Academy of Design, 1915.
Proctor prize, National Academy of Design, 1918. 1st Altman prize, National Academy of Design, 1923.
Gold medal of honor Allied Artists of America, 1931.
Norman Wait Harris prize, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, 1920. Saltus gold medal, National Academy of Design, 1931. Adolph and Clara Obrig prize, National Academy of Design, 1933.
Isaac North. Maynard prize, National Academy of Design, 1937.
Betts studied with William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1894, worked in Chicago and New York, and was made a full member of the National Academy of Design by 1915.
Married Giovanni M. Kurzenknabe, July 7, 1899. Married second, Mistress.