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Birth
1852 (London, England)
Death
1931 (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/Illinois
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wood engraving, magazine illustration, portrait painting
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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Born in London, Timothy Cole became one of the most sought after wood engravers* in the publishing industry. His reputation for exactness and range of his subject matter led him to being credited as "the last master of a dying art form." However, photographic reproduction later negated the demand for artists with engraving skills.
He came to the U.S. at age five, and was apprenticed in Chicago to a commercial wood engraving firm, Bond and Chandler. But he left the city i (showing 500 of 1744 characters). |
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