Working between WWI and the late twenties, Coles Phillips was the first to introduce Art Deco styles into advertising design. He illustrated many covers for the Saturday Evening Post with very modern... Read full biography
Working between WWI and the late twenties, Coles Phillips was the first to introduce Art Deco styles into advertising design. He illustrated many covers for the Saturday Evening Post with very modern and seductively designed women. Some social historians actually give Phillips credit for the first... Read full biography
Working between WWI and the late twenties, Coles Phillips was the first to introduce Art Deco styles into advertising design. He illustrated many covers for the Saturday Evening Post with very modern and seductively designed women. Some social historians actually give Phillips credit for the first pin-up girl, later known to all America as 'The Fadeaway Girl.' During a twenty-year period, between 1907 and 1927, Coles Phillips was ranked with Parrish, Leyendecker and Flagg as one of the most... Read full biography
Working between WWI and the late twenties, Coles Phillips was the first to introduce Art Deco styles into advertising design. He illustrated many covers for the Saturday Evening Post with very modern and seductively designed women. Some social historians actually give Phillips credit for the first pin-up girl, later known to all America as 'The Fadeaway Girl.' During a twenty-year period, between 1907 and 1927, Coles Phillips was ranked with Parrish, Leyendecker and Flagg as one of the most popular illustrators in the nation. Born Clarence Coles Phillips in Springfield, Ohio, he had lower middle class family that had no further aspirations for him other than working at the local American Radiator Company where his first job was as a clerk.... Read full biography
Working between WWI and the late twenties, Coles Phillips was the first to introduce Art Deco styles into advertising design. He illustrated many covers for the Saturday Evening Post with very modern and seductively designed women. Some social historians actually give Phillips credit for the first pin-up girl, later known to all America as 'The Fadeaway Girl.' During a twenty-year period, between 1907 and 1927, Coles Phillips was ranked with Parrish, Leyendecker and Flagg as one of the most popular illustrators in the nation. Born Clarence Coles Phillips in Springfield, Ohio, he had lower middle class family that had no further aspirations for him other than working at the local American Radiator Company where his first job was as a clerk. He quit that position and enrolled at Kenyon College in 1902, for he realized it was a dead end and he greatly preferred a career i... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
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JC Leyendecker American Imagist
2008
Cutler, Laurence S. & Judy Goffman Cutler & the National Museum of Illustration
256 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists
2004
Cutler, Laurence S, Judy Goffman Cutler & The National Museum of American Illustrators
448 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration
1995
Cohn, Jan
298 pages (color)
Jackets Required An Illustrated History of Book Jacket Design 1920-1950
1995
Heller, Steven/Seymour Chwast
144 pages (color)
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
Wake Up, America World War I and the American Poster
1988
Rawls, Walton
288 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966
Reed, Walt
272 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index