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Grazing below Mount Tamalpais	Gordon Coutts 1868 - 1937	Upper Tuolumne Sundown
San Jacinto Morning	Shepherd and sheep grazing	Beach Rodeo Cove

Before emigrating to the United States, Gordon Coutts began his studies in his native Glasgow, and continued at the Julian Academy in Paris. He married Alice Gray whom he met in Paris, and lived in Melbourne, Australia for several years. He then taught at the Art Society of New South Wales in Sydney. After some successes in Australia, he exhibited in the Royal Academy in London, and soon afterward, he and Alice moved to San Francisco. Always the inquisitive traveler, Coutts was on safari in Africa when Alice divorced him in 1918. In 1925, he moved to Palm Springs due to tuberculosis. He built a desert home modeled in the motif of castles he had known in Tangiers and named it "Dar Marroc." Today, his former home is an historic hotel named Korakia. When owned by Coutts, it was a center of Palm Springs culture, with visiting friends and artists such as Nicolai Fechin and Grant Wood. Also picking up a brush in the Dar Marroc studio were noteable guests, Winston Churchill and Rudolph Valentino.

Source: Askart, quoting information provided by David Korst, Gordon Coutts grandson; Korakia Hotel website, Korakia.com.