Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Mr. Otis by Stewart Hall Holbrook MR. OTIS. Mr. Otis (Stewart Holbrook) is represented in this zany, provocative and always charming collection of oil paintings by some twenty-eight works. Each painting is accompanied by a text which proposes to make clear the lofty purpose of the canvas, and Mr. Otis is a painter of many purposes. Social criticism, artistic criticism, philosophy, cosmogony, history,- into every nook and cranny of American thought goes Mr. Otis, the celebrated if impoverished scion of Portland, Oregon, with his pale blues and lavenders. The images he conjures up of social injustice, contemporary malaise, philosophical disorder, become deftly transfused with the gay lights of the child's nursery, a result of the remarkably sanguine quality of Mr. Otis' paintings. In his introduction, Stewart Holbrook, author of many serious works on Americans and Americana, stresses the fact that Mr. Otis' works are not precisely for sale, though they may be obtained through the tried and true method of bartering: a method which such celebrated experts as Mr. Bernard De Voto have eagerly employed. The captions as well as the paintings themselves, maintain a delicate balance between absurdity and convention, for despite the obvious parodies of both the text and the canvases, Stewart Holbrook has caught the tones, the cliches, and the entire vocabulary of self-impressed criticism and it is through his meticulous echoings that the true humor of this collection is achieved. Mr Otis Stewart H Holbrook. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mr. Otis Color Plates (illustrator). First Edition. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has two small corner chips, and is otherwise fine and unclipped in a Brodart jacket cover. MR. OTIS. One of most Original & Vivid Painters of our time ,A collection of paintings by an artist known only as Mr. Otis. Stewart Holbrook contributes a biographical sketch of the artist. Otis, as non-paying guest occupied bed in the bay-windowed room. painted by Mr. Otis in Color, Introduction by Stewart H. Holbrook of Portland, Oregon. a Newspaperman. PRICECLIPPED INNER FLAP DJ BUT ORIGINAL PRICE INTACT OF $3.95. Blank Endpapers Fox stains , Color Frontispiece Self Portrait of Artist & his Favorite. Published by NY: Macmillan,, 1958. Used - Hardcover. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1958, stated 1st Printing, 1st Edition, Dates Match on Title & copyright pg, NF+/GOOD-, AS-IS , Dj light rub,wear, scuff & FOX stains aplenty, & tiny chips tears edges.I nterior nice tight , Clean light wear, Grey tweed and blue cloth covers with white letters on front cover and on spine cover.70 pages. Book has light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Small chips spine DJ Ends , Color Frontispiece Self Portrait of Artist & his Favorite Model, Miss Lillian Russell exercising in her brand new Leotard, 29 color plates. ,as non-paying guest occupied bed in the bay-windowed room on 2nd floor, of decaying victorian Mansion that was Clubhouse in Portland, at Western End of Oregon Trail. He was an artist down on his Luck. He lived on Sardines & Crackers. He rated a Fireplace in his Room in which he brewed his Tea. The Rotting old mansion rose up 3 Tall Stories .Funny send-up of the modern art world, with numerous repros of "Mr.Otis's" work. Stewart Holbrook's "History of Mr Otis" and 30 full page , color repros of his whimsical, original and vivid paintings--no other painter like Mr Otis. Mr. Otis. Holbrook, Stewart H. Published by Macmillan, New York, 1958. Used Condition: Fine. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stewart H. Holbrook (Mr. Otis) (illustrator). Stated First Edition. 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Build a revolutionary library of literature that has been challenged or even outright banned. You'll be surprised by some of the titles in this gallery! Collecting the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and '70s was an explosive time in American history, and it inspired explosive literature. From Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, Jr., browse some of the most collectible books from and about that era. Mr. Otis by Stewart Hall Holbrook. Stewart Holbrook By Brian Booth � 2000. Portland's Stewart Holbrook (1893-1964) became a leading American journalist and historian by writing what he called "lowbrow" or "non- stuffed shirt history." His writings, sense of humor and social criticism also made him a sort of combination of Will Rogers, Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken for Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Holbrook helped record in a readable and colorful manner the lowbrow history of this region, which was generally overlooked by historians during his lifetime and only recently has become a subject for academic study by the "New Western Historians." Holbrook's trail through the Northwest was a very different type of Oregon Trail than Chambers of Commerce promoted or the conventional heroic view of the pioneers and missionaries of the West that prevailed during his lifetime. Holbrook's writings reflect his sympathy for and romanticizing of loggers and other workers, underdogs, visionaries and fanatics, his interest in the humorous and offbeat, and his penchant for puncturing myths and poking fun at stuffed-shirts and hypocrites from all walks of life. Holbrook's career was remarkable when you consider that when he moved to Portland in 1923 he was a 30 year old unemployed ex-logger without a high school degree. By the time of his death, the former logger had become an almost legendary figure for anyone in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in writing, journalism, history, current affairs, or the area's leading industry ?- forest products. His byline in magazines and newspapers, including The Oregonian for 36 years, was known to readers across the country. Author of three dozen books and one of the nation's most popular historians and commentators, he taught at Harvard, lectured at Reed and was known as the "Lumberjack Boswell." He was the nation's leading spokesperson for what he called the "Far Corner" - Oregon, Washington and Idaho. As one scholar recently wrote, "he single-handedly put the region on the literary map in the mid-20th century." But Holbrook's celebrity also came from his reputation as a "24-karat character": a witty raconteur and storyteller; a colorful dresser in his derby or rumpled stetson, who carried a snoose can in his pocket; and an irreverent and skeptical social critic who gleefully took on institutions such as the Church, Chambers of Commerce and the "Cult of the Pioneers." His circle of friends was scattered from Madison Avenue to skidroads, and included H.L. Mencken, Alfred Knopf, Bernard DeVoto and assorted executives, college presidents, loggers, radicals and Wobblies. To date, Holbrook is the only writer to have served as Grand Marshall of Portland's famed Rose Parade. Holbrook was an early forest conservationist and an advocate of sustained yield forestry. As the founder and leading spokesperson of the imaginary James G. Blaine Society, Holbrook campaigned against unplanned population growth and development in the Pacific Northwest. His concern about the problems that growth would bring to the Pacific Northwest preceded by many years the similar concerns of Oregon Governor Tom McCall and today's environmental organizations. Holbrook was the patron and fictive alter-ego of the remarkable Mr. Otis, founder of the Primitive-Moderne School of art. Mr. Otis's paintings explore the same historical subjects Holbrook wrote about. Colorful, entertaining and satirical, they depict historical events and his environmental and political concerns while parodying styles of contemporary art from his era. Holbrook's sophisticated understanding of modern art was applied in a whimsical manner, much as he used humor in his writing. From the end of World War II until his death in 1964, Holbrook was perhaps the Pacific Northwest's best-known personality. The press covered his books, his travels, his views on current issues, and the famous people who came to Portland to visit the Holbrooks. One would have to turn to the very different Norman Mailer in the in New York of the '60s and '70s for a literary figure who was so omnipresent and highly visible in a major community. One of the few residents of our region with a national reputation in any field, his celebrity was a matter of local pride. In those days before TV, the Global Village and the Trail Blazers, Holbrook linked the remote Northwest with the glamorous world of publishing and entertainment headquartered in New York. Holbrook (right) with Bernard DeVoto, well-known American historian and critic (Courtesy of Brian Booth) Ironically, for a writer and public figure who specialized in "lost men and women of American history," Holbrook's fame did not last long after his death, and he became one of the lost men he wrote about. Proposals to honor Holbrook with statues and memorials never came about. His books gradually went out of print. Brian Booth's Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest published by OSU Press helped revive interest in Holbrook and his work, including Mr. Otis. The book has gone through six printings and has been judged one of 19 "essential" works constituting the "Northwest canon." Reviewing Wildmen, Keith Edgison of Washington State University wrote that: "Above all, Holbrook was an individual who believed that history could be both important and readable. We could use a few more Stewart Holbrook's today." Wildmen also stimulated the art world's rediscovery of Mr. Otis and his works, which satirized the modern art world and made political statements so offensive in their time that only now are they becoming politically acceptable. Major exhibitions of Mr. Otis have been held at the University of Oregon Museum of Art and the World Forestry Center. A Checklist of the Books of Stewart H. Holbrook. Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack ; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. New, Enlarged Edition; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1979.