Pat Oliphant

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Pat Oliphant
Born
Patrick Bruce Oliphant

(1935-07-24) 24 July 1935 (age 88)
Maylands, South Australia, Australia
Nationality American
Known for Caricature, painting, sculpture
Awards Pulitzer Prize

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (born 24 July 1935) is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years. His body of work as a whole focuses mostly on American and global politics, culture, and corruption; he is particularly known for his caricatures of American presidents and other powerful leaders. Over the course of his long career, Oliphant produced thousands of daily editorial cartoons, dozens of bronze sculptures, as well as a large oeuvre of drawings and paintings. He retired in 2015.

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Early life and education

Oliphant was born 24 July 1935, Maylands, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia, to Donald Knox Oliphant and Grace Lillian Oliphant, née Price, of Rosslyn Park. He was raised in a small cabin in Aldgate, in the Adelaide Hills. His father worked as a draftsman for the government, and Oliphant credited him with sparking his interest in drawing. [1] His early education was in a one-room schoolhouse, followed by Unley High School. [2]

Career

In 1952, while still a teenager, Oliphant began his career in journalism, working as a copy boy with Adelaide's evening tabloid newspaper, The News , [3] which had recently been inherited by Rupert Murdoch. [4] He had no interest in going to college; he had an ambivalent relationship to formal education and already knew he wanted to be a journalist. In 1955, he moved to the News's rival The Advertiser , a morning broadsheet with 200,000 subscribers. [5] Before long, editors noticed his interest in drawing and he began producing both cartoons and illustrations. [4] The paper's conservative editorial policies frustrated him, and faced with the frequent veto of his commentaries on Australian politics, he learned that he was less likely to be censored for cartoons about international affairs. [6] He found inspiration during this period in the work of English cartoonist Ronald Searle, the Western Australian cartoonist Paul Rigby, and Mad magazine's political commentary, which he called a "shot in the arm." [6]

The Denver Post

In 1959, Oliphant went to the United States and Great Britain to learn about cartooning in those nations. He decided that he wanted to move to the United States. [6] However, he had to wait five years until his contract with the Advertiser ran out. [6] In 1964, while preparing to move without a job, he learned that cartoonist Paul Conrad was leaving the Denver Post . Oliphant sent a portfolio of work to the Post, [6] and was hired over 50 American applicants. [5] Oliphant moved to the United States with his wife, Hendrika DeVries, and his two children. [5] The Post placed a small snippet of the day's Oliphant cartoon on the paper's front page as a "teaser" for what would be found on the editorial page. [7]

Announcing his arrival, Time magazine stated, "Few U.S. cartoonists have so deftly distilled the spirit of [Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater] as Australia's Patrick Bruce Oliphant, 29, a recent arrival who has not yet set eyes on either Johnson or Goldwater." [5] Less than a year after Oliphant began working at the Denver Post, in April 1965, his work was syndicated internationally [4] by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. [8] Oliphant's reputation grew swiftly, and in 1967, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his 1 February 1966 cartoon They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table ... Will They? [9] In this cartoon, Ho Chi Minh carries the body of a dead Vietnamese man in the posture of a Pietà. Oliphant had intentionally submitted a cartoon that he felt was among the weakest he had published that year. [10] When it won, he roundly criticised the Pulitzer board, stating that they had selected the cartoon for its subject matter rather than the quality of the work. [10] He refused to be considered for the award ever again and became a regular critic of the Pulitzer. [10]

According to Ralph Steadman, Oliphant would have been Hunter S. Thompson's "first choice of a 'cartoonist collaborator.'" [11]

The Washington Star

In 1975, Oliphant moved to The Washington Star , [12] wooed by editor Jim Bellows. [13] In 1980, he switched syndication companies, joining Universal Press Syndicate. The Star went out of business in 1981.

Independent work

After The Washington Star folded, Oliphant had offers from other newspapers, but decided to remain independent, living off the earnings from his extensive syndication. [14] He was the first political cartoonist in the twentieth century to work independently from a home newspaper, [13] a situation that provided him with a unique independence from editorial control. By this time, he had become a nationally recognised figure. In 1976, a survey of 188 cartoonists had found that fellow professionals saw Oliphant as the "best all-around cartoonist" on the editorial pages. [15] A decade later, a similar survey made the same conclusion; at this time, the reasons given were Oliphant's original and influential aesthetic. [16] He had become "quite simply the standard by which all other working cartoonists should be measured." [16] Indeed, by 1983, Oliphant was the most widely syndicated American political cartoonist, with his work appearing in more than 500 newspapers. [17] His work influenced the look of the field as a whole. For example, when he stopped using Duoshade, a chemical process for creating textured backgrounds, in the early 1980s, Oliphant noticed that the rest of the field followed suit. In 1990, The New York Times described him as "the most influential editorial cartoonist now working." [18]

In 1979, Oliphant was naturalized as an American citizen. [19] In 1983, he married his second wife, Mary Ann Kuhn. [20] They divorced in 1994, and he married Susan C. Conway in 1996; they remain married today. [20]

By 1995, Oliphant had reduced the frequency of his daily cartoons to four days a week. [21] It was at this time that he began submitting his cartoons in digital form as scans of his original drawings. [22] By 2014, he was submitting three cartoons a week. [4]

In 2004, Oliphant moved from Washington, D.C. to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 2012, Oliphant was the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Resident at the American Academy in Rome for three months.

In January 2015, Oliphant retired from publishing syndicated cartoons. [23] In February 2017, however, he came out of retirement with two images for The Nib of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. [24] One shows Trump as a childlike member of the Hitler Youth, asking a ghoulish Bannon what he thinks of his outfit.

Style

Oliphant's earliest cartoons in Australia often mimic the style of his elders, but his mature style is easily identifiable and distinctive. His caricatured subjects are immediately recognizable, and have been made "grotesque" through "extreme distortion." [15] He is recognised for his skilled drafting, [25] and for making unprecedented use of the horizontal format of the editorial cartoon space. [15] As Rick Marschall noted in 1999, "Oliphant offered a style totally his own and revolutionary in the field. The Oliphant look—long-faced characters, sparse use of icons and labels, arresting "camera angles"—still dominates the field, at least in the minds of cartoonists who aspire to Oliphant's unflagging brilliance." [26] Curator Harry Katz has called him "one of history's finest comic artists." [27]

Oliphant has made a speciality of caricaturing American presidents, and multiple exhibitions have featured his work arranged by presidential administration. He developed tropes for various presidents: His dark, brooding Nixon is at times naked and ashamed, covering his privates like Adam and Eve, and at times making the "Victory" sign. Oliphant regularly portrayed the accident-prone Gerald Ford with a bandaid on his forehead. [28] His fondness for Ronald Reagan did not protect that president, who is often portrayed as an oblivious buffoon in a parody of one of his films, while George H. W. Bush sometimes appears clutching a handbag and at other times is swathed in cloth as "Bush of Arabia." During the Clinton administration, he regularly used Socks the cat and Buddy the dog as a sort of "Greek chorus" to comment upon the happenings. [29] He famously portrayed Barack Obama as an Easter Island head worshiped by voters. Oliphant found that it took time to find the right look for a new president, noting, "I hate changes of Administrations. It takes six months to 'get' a new man." [30]

"Punk"

Early in his career, Oliphant began to include a small penguin in almost every one of his political cartoons. This character, which he named Punk, joined a tradition of such secondary figures, which cartoonist R. C. Harvey has termed "dingbats". They appear in the work of earlier cartoonists such as Fred O. Seibel of the Richmond Times Dispatch, whose cartoons featured a small, ironic crow, [31] and earlier by W.K. (William Keevil) Patrick of the New Orleans Times-Democrat and then Times-Picayune, who had a signature duck character. [32] Punk was created after a colleague visiting South Australia's south coast brought back a penguin in a paper bag. [13] The penguin was delivered to the zoo, and Oliphant decided to include him in a cartoon. [13] Punk began as an easily identifiable Adelie Penguin, [33] but swiftly became stylized and remained so for the rest of Oliphant's career. Punk adds a second layer of commentary to the subject of the panel. [3] He is often placed in conversation with another tiny figure. Punk was popular with both adults and children, who could make a game of finding him in each cartoon. [5] In 1984, Oliphant briefly drew a full-colour comic strip featuring the penguin for the Sunday funny pages, titled Sunday Punk, but found the work too laborious and soon gave up the strip. [34]

Oliphant originally created Punk as a space for subversion in the conservative editorial environment of the Adelaide Advertiser. [31] Punk was a space for the cartoonist's own opinion, while the overall cartoon needed to hew to the views of the paper's editors. [31] Punk's point of view changes from cartoon to cartoon: sometimes bemused, sometimes ironic, and sometimes trenchant, he does not always represent an opinion that can be assumed to be that of Oliphant himself.

Courting controversy

Oliphant's cartoons are very rarely warm to their subjects: Oliphant has often noted that his job is to criticise, and that he has avoided getting to know his subjects because he is afraid he will like them. He intentionally courts backlash, saying in Rolling Stone in 1976, "This really isn't a business ... it's a cause. I'm an outcast because of it. A writer can’t really say, 'This man's an idiot,' because the law holds him back. We can say it." [35]

Oliphant has often remarked on his intention to draw criticism from all political perspectives from his cartoons, and has indeed received strong criticism by ethnic and religious groups alike for particular drawings. In 2001, the Asian American Journalists Association accused Oliphant of "cross[ing] the line from acerbic depiction to racial caricature". [36]

In 2005, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee expressed concern that some of Oliphant's caricatures were racist and misleading. [37] In 2007, two Oliphant cartoons produced a similar response. A cartoon [38] about Israel's December 2008 offensive against Hamas in Gaza sparked criticism among some American Jews: the cartoon courted this criticism actively by showed a jackbooted, headless figure representing Israel in a goosestepping posture, looming over a small female figure holding a baby labelled "Gaza." [39] The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said the cartoon denigrated and demonized Israel and mimicked Nazi propaganda. It called on the New York Times and other media groups to remove the cartoon from their websites. [40]

A 2005 cartoon showing Condoleezza Rice as a parrot perched on George W. Bush's shoulder was criticised by some readers for presenting her with buck teeth and exaggerated lips. [41]

Oliphant's cartoons featuring Catholic scandals have been controversial: the Catholic League has called him "one of the most viciously anti-Catholic editorial cartoonists ever to have disgraced the pages of American newspapers." [42] On Christmas Eve, 1993, Catholic readers were angered by a cartoon associating Michael Jackson and priests with child molestation. [43] One of his most famous cartoons, "Celebration of Spring at St. Pedophilia's – the Annual Running of the Altar Boys," led to debates in print, radio, and television across the country when it was published on 20 March 2002. [44] The New York Times and Washington Post, as well as other papers, chose not to include the cartoon online, [44] while an unknown number did not run it at all. [45]

In 1987, Oliphant protested the selection of Berkeley Breathed for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Oliphant's concern was that Breathed's work "has, so far as I know, not appeared on one editorial page in the country." [46] Addressing the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to hearty applause, Oliphant represented the views of many of his colleagues: that the seriousness of editorial cartooning as a journalistic pursuit was at risk, and that the Pulitzer was encouraging the valuing of humor over political statement. [47]

Non-newspaper drawings

Newspaper editorial cartoons were not Oliphant's only genre. In his earliest days in Australia, he produced a wide variety of newspaper illustrations. Later in his career, he produced illustrations for a number of books and his work, often in full colour, was featured in the pages and on the covers of numerous magazines. For a time he drew cartoons for Rolling Stone: this body of work is produced for a different audience than his newspaper cartoons, and is often more graphic or intentionally offensive than his work for the syndicate. In the 1990s he drew for a Northwest Airlines advertising campaign advocating the "open skies" policy concept. (Oliphant has flown privately and has had a pilot certificate.) [48] By the early 1980s Oliphant had begun producing sculpture as well as editorial cartoons. In 1988, he began sitting in on William Christenberry's figure drawing classes at the Corcoran School. His work in all media has appeared in several exhibitions, most notably at the National Portrait Gallery. He has worked in pen and ink, oil, lithography, and other media.

Sculpture

Oliphant began working in bronze in the early 1980s, and produced a significant body of work over the remainder of his career. His bronze caricatures have been compared favorably with those of the nineteenth-century French caricaturist Honoré Daumier. [4] Oliphant's bronzes are frequently heads, busts, or full figure portraits of major political figures, though he has also sculpted animals, human types, and compositions containing multiple figures. His sculptures are in various scales, from a diminutive Jimmy Carter to a larger-than-life depiction of Angelina Eberly, an important figure in the famous Texas Archive War, located on the sidewalk on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas near the Capitol.

Works in bronze

Publications

Exhibitions and catalogues

Cartoon collections

Illustrated by Oliphant

Text contributed by Oliphant

Book cover art

Contributions to anthologies

Animated films

Awards and honors

Personal life

Oliphant is the nephew of Sir Mark Oliphant, the Australian physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, who later became Governor of South Australia. [53] See Oliphant brothers for several other Australian relations.

Pat Oliphant enjoys flying and has had a commercial pilot's certificate. He has long been a member of the Bad Golfers Association. He is a left-handed vegetarian. [54]

Archives and collections

Oliphant's papers reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, and include almost 7,000 daily cartoon drawings, dozens of sketchbooks, fine art on paper, sculpture, fan and hate mail, and extensive documentation of Oliphant's career. [55] His works are held in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, the George W. Bush Library, The University of Colorado Library, and New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. [56]

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