Betts grew up in a family of artists. Four of his siblings, with his father being the teacher, all painted professionally. He lived most of his life in Chicago, Illinois and Muskegon, Michigan. Though he was a Midwesterner, his favorite subject matter was the Grand Canyon and the Pueblo Indians. He traveled all through the southwest painting the Rio Grand Pueblos in Taos to Santa Domingo; the tribes in Colorado Springs, Colorado and southern California and the Hopi and Navajo reservations in New Mexico and Arizona.
He exhibited at the Art Institute in Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Hackley Gallery in Muskegon, Michigan. His work is in the Santa Fe Railway, Hubbell Trading Post and the Smithsonian collections.
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Hopis of the Grand Canyon |
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