Coles Phillips

Coles Phillips Illustrator

The very talented Coles Phillips died relatively young but left a huge body of illustrations as his legacy for future generations to enjoy.

Reasons to love Coles Phillips

Coles Phillips was a leading American Illustator who developed his own unique style of illustration, referred to as the fadeaway.

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

A short biography

Clarence Coles Phillips (1880, Springfield, Ohio - 1927, New Rochelle, New York) was an American artist.

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 classes in art school, Phillips started his own advertisement agency. In 1907, Phillips met with J.A. Mitchell, the publisher of Life Magazine,...

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