Timothy Cole
{{Short description|American wood engraver (1852–1931)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Timothy Cole
| image = Portrait of Timothy Cole.jpg
| birth_date = 1852
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1931|5|17|1852|4|16|df=y}}"Timothy Cole Dies", The New York Times, May 18, 1931.
| death_place = New York, United States
| occupation = Wood engravingWhittle, George Howes (1918). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25588326 "The Art of Timothy Cole,"] The Art World, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 377-383.
| children = Alphaeus Philemon Cole
}}
File:Lessons In Horsemanship by Timothy Cole (cropped).jpg
Timothy Cole (1852{{snd}}17 May 1931) was an American wood engraver.
Biography
Timothy Cole was born in 1852 in London, England, his family emigrated to the United States in 1858.
File:Timothy Cole at work cph.3b21068.jpg
He established himself in Chicago,Cole, Alphaeus Philemon & Margaret Ward Walmsley Cole (1935). Timothy Cole: Wood-engraver. The Pioneer Associates, p. 5. where in the great fire of 1871 he lost everything he possessed. In 1875, he moved to New York City, finding work on the Century (then Scribner's) magazine.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25587641 "Timothy Cole,"] The Art World, Vol. 1, No. 1, Oct., 1916, p. 13.Sabine, Julia (1952). "Timothy Cole and the 'Century'," The Library Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 232-239.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Cole was associated with the magazine for 40 years as a pioneer craftsman of wood engraving.{{cite web|title=Timothy Cole|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/39052970|publisher=Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia|access-date=2 October 2013}}
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 European galleries. These achieved for him a brilliant success. His reproductions of Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Flemish and English pictures were published in book form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He published his prints in several books: Old Italian Masters (1892), Old Dutch and Flemish Masters (1895), Old English Masters (1902),{{cite journal|title=Review of Old English Masters by Timothy Cole|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=3923|date=January 3, 1903|pages=23–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKA5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA23}} 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 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis, Missouri, in 1904.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} In 1906 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician, and became a full Academician in 1908.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
Collections
- Art Institute of Chicago{{cite web |title=Timothy Cole |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/34008/timothy-cole |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |date=1852 |language=en}}
- Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web |title=Lesson in Horsemanship (1913) by Timothy Cole|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/432275 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org)}}
- Smithsonian American Art Museum{{cite web |title=Timothy Cole {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/timothy-cole-944 |website=americanart.si.edu}}
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.
References
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- {{EB1911|wstitle=Cole, Timothy|volume=6|page=665}}
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Category:American wood engravers
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:Artists from New York City
Category:Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters