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Joe Knowles, character of the coast
By JONATHAN WILLIAMS
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
H
ave you ever won-
dered what certain
coastal locals or
the people who lived there
once looked like?
Joe Knowles’ paintings,
sketches and illustrations,
on view now through Oct. 5
at the Columbia Pacifi c Her-
itage Museum in Ilwaco, are
a trip through time on the
Long Beach Peninsula and
coast
nearby surroundings.
Knowles works are fully
lived in and deftly capture
the character and mood of
the subjects he documents.
His sketches of men
working with nets on the
river, his famous husky
affectionately called
“Wolf,” geese and an old
woman, as well as medium
and large landscape paint-
ings, carry a calming
immediacy that transports
you to the time, place or
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did where he entered the
woods of Maine in 1913
without tools and dressed
only in a loin cloth. The
stunt was covered in the
Boston Post newspaper.
Knowles emerged from the
woods two months later
dressed in bearskin, but
the rival Boston Ameri-
can newspaper debunked
that story a year later. After
this, Knowles wrote a book
and went on a speaking
tour, eventually moving to
Seaview.
Knowles, working
during the Golden Age of
illustration, also did work
for magazines like National
Sportsman, Top-Notch
Magazine and Field and
Stream.
While Knowles worked
during the height of mod-
ern art, his work falls more
into a celebration of —
rather than a challenge to
— notions of the American
West.
He played an integral
role as a commercial art-
ist on the coast in both the
Long Beach and Astoria
communities.
He completed a study
for a mural of San Gior-
gio, Italy, that would later
be painted at the Liberty
Theatre.
One of his works on
view is a large painting of
the Long Beach Peninsula
titled “North Beach Wash-
ington — Playground of
the Pacifi c.”
The collection of
Knowles’ work at CPHM
gives a fuller sense of the
artist, his motives and
interests and his centrality
to our coastal communities
as a working artist in the
early 20th century.
The exhibit is lined with
walls of Knowles’ work,
which rewards time spent
looking at them.
Knowles was a true
character who knew how to
capture the character and
mood of the subjects he
depicted. CW
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person it portrays.
His works are also
well-preserved: many of
Knowles’ oil paintings look
as though he just fi nished
them and the paint is still
drying.
Knowles worked for
much of his life as a com-
mercial artist in Seaview,
Washington, in a cottage he
built. He came to Seaview
in the 1920s.
Knowles was famous
for a publicity stunt he
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