Painter. He received fame as a French-born American artist. He was known for his paintings of the Hudson Valley in New York. He was five years old when the family immigrated from France to the United States on January 5, 1870. The Schott family settled in Detroit, Michigan where his father was his first art instructor. When his father died in 1883, he went to New York City where he was employed by the ecclesiastic decorating firm of J&R Lamb. He spent some time in Europe furthering his art studies, but returned to New York in late 1889 with his new wife Mary Jane Ford. It was at this time he began to use the name "Dabo," perhaps because his parents had come from the Dabo area of France. As a master muralist, he and his brother Theodore created a partnership, receiving large commissions for work in public institutions, churches and synagogues in New York, Brooklyn, Long Island and Philadelphia. He also continued his work for J&R Lamb where one of his employers, Charles R. Lamb, recognized his talent and asked him to show some of his landscape paintings at the National Arts Club. His first successful submissions into juried art competitions were made in 1901 to the 39th Annual Exhibition at the Bridgeport Public Library and the 76th Annual Exhibition at the prestigious National Academy of Design in New York. In May of 1905, he had five paintings accepted for the Winter Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York. Success came quickly, and he was one of the radical new painters just after the turn of the century that changed the art scene in the United States, submitting his paintings to competitions for the next 16 years. He was an active member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the organization that created the great Armory Show of 1913. He competed in the 1910 Exhibition of Independent Artists organized by "The Eight" along with the 1913 Armory Show. During World War I, he served from early 1918 through 1919 on General Hersey's staff in France. Made a life-time member of the National Arts Club in 1913, he was also the President of the Pastel Society of America from 1910 to 1914, the President of the Brooklyn Society of Artists from 1926 to 1928, made a National Academician in 1944, and was a member of many art organizations both in the United States and in Europe. He and his wife separated in the 1920s and after his wife's death in 1945, he married Stephanie Ofenthal on August 8, 1946. During World War II, he and Ofenthal, who was Jewish, were trapped in Paris after the June of 1940 Nazi invasion. Not only did he want the two of them to escape this ordeal, but he had 300 canvas paintings to save. After a four-mouth anxious wait, they fled through Spain, to Portugal, and eventually back to New York. In 1941 he held an exhibition in New York City called "When I Last Saw France," which told the story of France and the Nazi invasion. This received heavy newspaper coverage. He continued to work both the United States and Europe into his 90th year, signing his last canvases in 1955. His works are in over 30 museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Louvre in Paris, and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. His paintings easily sell at auction for over $10,000 each.