RARE YOUNG MAN'S FANCY COLES PHILLIPS E Stetson Crawford 1912 w/ Dust Cover

Description: This beautiful book collection of C. Cole’s Phillips artwork is in EXCELLENT shape. Antique printing 1st edition. See pics. The dust cover is worn and shows its age but this book itself is delightful. Collectors, you know this is a great price point! Title: A Young Man's Fancy Publisher: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912 Binding: Hardcover Dust Jacket Condition worn see pics. A dust cover at all is rare! Edition: 1st Edition Clarence Coles Phillips, better known as Coles Phillips, drew his way through a childhood devoid of formal art education. Phillips was unproductive when he worked as a clerk at the American Radiator Company and sketched on the job. He soon moved to Gambier, Ohio to attend Kenyon College, where his drawings were in high demand and adorned the pages of the college newspaper and yearbook. Phillips left Kenyon three years later to pursue a career in illustration in New York City, where he again worked for American Radiator. He was fired after a short tenure when the president of the company viewed a vulgar drawing Phillips had made of him. Phillips sought formal training by night at the Chase School of Art and the Free School. He endured a stint working at an illustration assembly line where several men painted different body parts on a single figure; he quit in disgust after just eight weeks. Phillips then landed a job at an advertising agency where he worked as a staff artist, and was quickly promoted to artist-client liaison—a higher-status job that prevented him from making his own drawings. Even after leaving the agency and starting his own in 1906, he was not painting as often as he wanted. Phillips gave up the agency the following year and with enough money for thirty days of food and rent, he started to work in earnest, drawing frantically day and night. Just as his money ran out and his landlord became restive, Phillips presented a drawing to the editor of Life magazine, and the editor approved. Phillips was paid for his work and illustrated for Life frequently from then on. His first Life cover appeared in early 1908. In May 1908, also on a Life cover, he pioneered what came to be his signature design—a graphic human figure with a detailed face, hands, and feet, and with clothing in the same shade as the background. This design, called “The Fadeaway Girl” took the illustration world by storm, and Phillips’ work soon appeared on books, calendars, postcards sold internationally, and a profusion of other covers for Life. Although he often created illustrations without the fade-away effect, the style was his unmistakable hallmark throughout his career.

Price: 425 USD

Location: Falling Waters, West Virginia

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Shipping Cost: 5.95 USD