Coles Phillips Illustrator
His illustrations appeared as magazine covers or advertisements in all the popular magazines of the day, usually in color. The ads were normally full page ads but sometimes they featured as a double-page spread.
The two most popular subjects for Coles Phillips illustrations were women and cars, both of which enabled him to showcase his unique style.
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The fade-away drawing, where the figure fades into the background and is caught here and there by some accessory or highlight, became Coles Phillips trademark. His first published attempt at this type of drawing was in 1908 for Life magazine.
While this technique was used on different subjects including cars and men, it is the fadeaway girls that Coles is best remembered for.
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Coles Phillips at a Glance
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Category: File - :Coles Phillips2 Life.jpg|thumb|right|Cover art for Life Magazine, 27 January 1910 demonstrating the fadeaway girl technique.
Clarence Coles Phillips (1880June 13, 1927) was an American artist.
He was born in Springfield, Ohio. While studying at Kenyon College in 1902, he found an audience for drawing in the school yearbooks. His drawings appear in the 1901-1904 issues of The Reveille, and in the 1921 and 1922 editions of the U.S. Naval Academy's yearbook, "Lucky bag". After leaving Kenyon, Phillips moved to New York determined to earn a living with his art. After taking class...
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- BevsPaper BevsPaper Nov 11, 2008 @ 6:37 am
- He did such remarkable work! I love the ads he did with the women and some covers too. I wasn't aware that he did cars. Now, I'm going to have to pay more attention.
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