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April 11, 1907
LIFE, from New York, New York, dated April 11, 1907
* Clarence Cole Phillips print
Tipped-in double page centerfold by C. Cole Phillips is captioned:
* The Cup That Clears To-Day Of Past Regrets And Future Fears
Shows a well-dressed young woman & a well-dressed mature woman (with a red nose), each raising a small glass, presumably of booze.
4to-size, 16 pages.
wikipedia notes: 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, and was hired at the age of 26. Phillips would be associated with the magazine throughout his life.
Phillips became very popular with readers and was awarded cover assignments. In 1908, he created a cover that would become his trademark--by combining foreground and background elements of the same color, he created the "fadeaway girl," which became a popular convention in print art for decades to come.
Phillips lived and worked in New Rochelle, New York, a popular residential community for illustrators including JC Leyendecker and Norman Rockwell. He died in 1927 at the age of 47. The day he died, his good friend and neighbor in New Rochelle, JC Leyendecker took the four Phillips children into Manhattan to see the Charles Lindbergh Parade on Fifth Avenue.
Category: The 20th Century
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