Sketches of Old Town & Old Timers SIGNED 1980 by Charles Reynolds ~ Portland, Oregon ~ Skid Row ~ Downtown Neighborhood ~ Hotels ~ 1970s

Title: Sketches of Old Town & Old Timers

Author: Charles Reynolds

Description: Inscribed by the author on ffep. One of 500 copies (stated on dust jacket flap). Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Clean. 84 illustrations and 85 pages of text (169 pages total). Dust jacket shows some light edgewear and rubbing; in an archival mylar sleeve.

Eighty-four sketches of Portland, Oregon's Old Town neighborhood as it appeared in the 1970's by artist Charles Edwin Reynolds (1909-2001). The illustrations present a large number of street views, showing the businesses, restaurants, and shelters. In addition there are several portraits of its denizens and a few views of interiors . The captions identify place names and locations and provide a small amount of historical or descriptive detail. These sketches document a part of Portland that was quickly vanishing, even and including five buildings that burned down during the year-or-so that he was making his drawings.

While Reynolds described himself as a self-taught artist, he did study sculpture at Syracuse while obtaining his degree in forestry, and later studied at Portland's Museum Art School.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: [published by author]
Place: [Portland, Oregon]
Year: 1980

Keywords: Portland, Oregon, Old Town, neighborhoods, downtown, history, 1970s, seventies, Skid Row