found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 13, 2015(in obituary published Aug. 12: Fred Otnes; b. Frederick Joseph Otnes Jr., Dec. 3, 1925, Junction City, Kan.; moved to Chicago after being discharged from the Marines; in 1952, married Fran McCaughan (d. 1995); they moved to New York and then to Westport, Conn.; in the early 1960s, they moved to a house in Redding, Conn., where they lived until their deaths; d. July 28, Westport, aged 89; prominent illustrator, painter, and collage artist who embraced abstraction well before most commercial illustrators did)
