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Timothy Cole (185217 May 1931) was an American wood engraver.

Biography

Timothy Cole was born in 1852 in

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, his family emigrated to the United States in 1858. Timothy Cole at work cph

He established himself in

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, where in the

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he lost everything he possessed. In 1875, he moved to

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, finding work on the '' Century'' (then ''Scribner's'') magazine. Cole was associated with the magazine for 40 years as a pioneer craftsman of wood engraving. He immediately attracted attention by his unusual facility and his sympathetic interpretation of illustrations and pictures, and his publishers sent him abroad in 1883 to engrave a set of blocks after the old masters in the

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an galleries. These achieved for him a brilliant success. His reproductions of

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and English pictures were published in book form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself. He published his engravings in several books: ''Old Italian Masters'' (1892), ''Old Dutch and Flemish Masters'' (1895), ''Old English Masters'' (1902), and ''Old Spanish Masters'' (1907). Though the advent of new mechanical processes had rendered wood engraving almost a lost art and left practically no demand for the work of such craftsmen, Mr Cole was thus enabled to continue his work, and became one of the foremost contemporary masters of wood engraving. He received a medal of the first class at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and the only grand prize given for wood engraving at the

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Exposition at St Louis, Missouri, in 1904. In 1906 he was elected into the

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as an Associate Academician, and became a full Academician in 1908. His son, Alphaeus Philemon Cole, was a noted portraitist who is also today recognized as having been the world's oldest verified living man at the time of his death.

Collections

* Art Institute of Chicago *

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* Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bibliography

* Anon (1911). "Timothy Cole: A Biographical Note", '' The Print Collector’s Quarterly,'' Vol 1, No. 3, p. 344. * Cary, Elisabeth Luther (1911). "Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf: Two Masters of Modern Wood-Engraving," '' The Print Collector’s Quarterly'', Vol 1, No. 3, p. 319. * Cole, Timothy (1911). "Some Difficulties of Wood-Engraving," '' The Print Collector’s Quarterly'', Vol 1, No. 3, p. 335. * Robert Underwood, Johnson (1918). "Timothy Cole," ''The Art World'', Vol. 3, No. 5, p. 376.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Timothy 1852 births 1931 deaths AIGA medalists American printmakers American engravers American wood engravers English emigrants to the United States Artists from London Artists from Chicago Artists from New York City Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters