34 Facts About Patrick Oliphant

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant was born on 24 July 1935 and is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years.

Patrick Oliphant was raised in a small cabin in Aldgate, in the Adelaide Hills.

Patrick Oliphant's father worked as a draftsman for the government, and Oliphant credited him with sparking his interest in drawing.

Patrick Oliphant 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 1959, Patrick Oliphant went to the United States and Great Britain to learn about cartooning in those nations.

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Patrick Oliphant decided that he wanted to move to the United States.

Patrick Oliphant sent a portfolio of work to the Post, and was hired over 50 American applicants.

Patrick Oliphant moved to the United States with his wife, Hendrika DeVries, and his two children.

Patrick Oliphant had intentionally submitted a cartoon that he felt was among the weakest he had published that year.

Patrick Oliphant refused to be considered for the award ever again and became a regular critic of the Pulitzer.

In 1975, Patrick Oliphant moved to The Washington Star, wooed by editor Jim Bellows.

Patrick Oliphant was the first political cartoonist in the twentieth century to work independently from a home newspaper, a situation that provided him with a unique independence from editorial control.

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

Patrick Oliphant retired from publishing syndicated cartoons after 13 January 2015.

Patrick Oliphant came out of retirement on 2 February 2017 with two images on The Nib of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon.

Patrick Oliphant has made a speciality of caricaturing American presidents, and multiple exhibitions have featured his work arranged by presidential administration.

Patrick Oliphant 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.

Patrick Oliphant regularly portrayed the accident-prone Gerald Ford with a bandaid on his forehead.

Patrick Oliphant famously portrayed Barack Obama as an Easter Island head worshiped by voters.

Early in his career, Patrick Oliphant began to include a small penguin in almost every one of his political cartoons.

Patrick Oliphant is often placed in conversation with another tiny figure.

In 1980, Patrick Oliphant briefly drew a full-color 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.

Patrick Oliphant originally created Punk as a space for subversion in the conservative editorial environment of the Adelaide Advertiser.

Patrick Oliphant's cartoons are very rarely warm to their subjects: Patrick Oliphant has often noted that his job is to criticize, and that he has avoided getting to know his subjects because he is afraid he will like them.

In 2001, the Asian American Journalists Association accused Patrick Oliphant of "cross[ing] the line from acerbic depiction to racial caricature".

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In 1987, Patrick Oliphant protested the selection of Berkeley Breathed for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Patrick Oliphant has worked in pen and ink, oil, lithography, and other media.

Patrick Oliphant began working in bronze in the early 1980s, and produced a significant body of work over the remainder of his career.

Patrick Oliphant's bronzes are frequently heads, busts, or full figure portraits of major political figures, though he has sculpted animals, human types, and compositions containing multiple figures.

Patrick Oliphant's 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.

Patrick Oliphant is the nephew of Sir Mark Patrick Oliphant, the Australian physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and who later became Governor of South Australia.

Pat Patrick Oliphant enjoys flying and has had a commercial pilot's certificate.

Patrick Oliphant has long been a member of the Bad Golfers Association.

Patrick Oliphant's 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.