Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant passed away on July 13th due to age-related health issues at his home in Santa Fe, NM. He was 90 years old.
Ann Telnaes:
"People will throw around the label of legend in the editorial cartooning profession but Pat Oliphant was truly one. Not only did his editorial cartoons and caricatures slice right through deserving politicians and public figures, his draftsmanship was on a level far above everyone else. No one came close to his drawing ability in editorial cartooning."
"Pat Oliphant began his U.S. career at the Denver Post in 1964, in 1975 he moved to The Washington (DC) Star. After The Star folded in 1981 Oliphant went freelance and became, as The New Mexican ... says, “the most syndicated editorial cartoonist in the country.”
"Bill Banowsky, owner of Sky Cinemas in Santa Fe and a filmmaker, produced A Savage Art, a documentary on Oliphant’s life and work and on the art
of political cartooning — a film Sky Cinemas will screen for a week
starting Friday in honor of Oliphant."
The New York Times obituary by Robert D. McFadden (or here).
"A largely self-taught artist who also created bronze sculptures and painted in oils, Mr. Oliphant skewered powerful public officials and religious institutions with such boldness and acid wit that a Washington Post critic once said, 'If Pat Oliphant couldn’t draw, he’d be an assassin.' In 1990, a profile in The New York Times Magazine called him “the most influential editorial cartoonist now working.”
"His irreverence and his blunt, spare style, sometimes likened to that of Honoré Daumier, the 19th-century French caricaturist, was often imitated by other cartoonists. But he was also vilified by religious and civil rights groups for cartoons that his critics said not only crossed the lines of good taste but unfairly damaged the reputations of people and institutions — and that, at their worst, were racist.
"Before Mr. Oliphant established himself as the nation’s most dominant political cartoonist …."
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