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Timothy Cole (185217 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.
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He established himself in Chicago, 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. Cole was associated with the magazine for 40 years as a pioneer craftsman of wood engraving.
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. He published his prints in several books: Old Italian Masters (1892), Old Dutch and Flemish Masters (1895), Old English Masters (1902), and Old Spanish Masters (1907).
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
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.