The Artist Colony on Hood Canal Pixley, Orre Nobles & Waldo Chase -- AS NEW Copy
(Shelton, Washington): (Mason County Historical Society), (2021). Orre Nobles Waldo Chase. Third Printing. Illustrated stiff printed wrappers. Square-ish 8vo. Pp. vi, 166. Illustrated with black and white photography and reproductions of artwork by the featured artists. Index. Bound in illustrated stiff printed wrappers. New. Item #11787 Fellow artists included brothers Waldo and Corwin Chase, Hollywood set designer Don Beckman, and others. Nobles' guest lodge, Olympus Manor, was a focal point of music and plays, attended by his worldly connections from Peking to Paris to NYC. Meanwhile, the Chase brothers attracted wide acclaim for their Northwest-themed prints. Among those in Orre Nobles' circle were boxer Gene Tunney (with whom he was quite close), Harold Acton and his one-time partner Thomas Handforth (to whom Nobles sublet his Peking compound), Don Blanding, Burgess Meredith, et al.
From the 1920s into the 1950s a bohemian enclave sprouted at the lower bend of Hood Canal on Washington State. Encouraged by local landowning-freethinker Frank Pixley, a nephew of the pioneering California publisher of the Argonaut, the colony grew largely through the effort of Orre Nelson Nobles.
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