Timothy Cole papers

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Timothy Cole papers

1883-1936

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The papers of Timothy Cole measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1883 to 1936. Found within the papers are letters primarily written by Timothy Cole to the editors of <emph render="italic">Century Magazine</emph> including A. W. Drake, W. Lewis Fraser, Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, and George Howes Whittle, discussing Cole's production of wood engraved copies of European master paintings for the magazine, and details of the wood engraving process. There are scattered letters to Cole from <emph render="italic">Century Magazine</emph> editors and colleagues Gifford Beal, Alice Brown (discussing Cole's wood engraved portrait of Louise Imogen Guiney for Brown's biography of her), George de Forest Brush, Kenyon Cox, David Finney, Helen C. Frick (concerning a bookplate), Joseph Pennell, Caroline Powell, John Singer Sargent, and Helen M. Turner.Also found are miscellaneous writings including a notebook of poems by Cole, essays about Louise Imogen Guiney and Joseph Pennell, and an autobiographical essay, artwork consisting of wood engravings executed by Cole of works by the master painters of Europe and America, and two printing plates used by <emph render="italic">Century Magazine</emph> to reproduce Cole's wood engravings. Several clippings concern Cole, his work, and the publication of the book <emph render="italic">Timothy Cole: Wood Engraver</emph> by Alphaeus P. Cole and Margaret Ward Cole in 1936. There is also a photograph of Cole cutting a wood engraving block as his wife reads nearby.

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Lacour, Octave L.

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National Academy of Design (U.S.)

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Whittle, George Howes

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Fraser, William Lewis, 1841-1905

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Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919

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Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Turner, Helen Maria, 1858-1958

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Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941

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Drake, Alexander W. (Alexander Wilson), 1843-1916

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Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956

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The vertical files of the Whitney Library originated with the Museum's founding in 1930 and include research materials on 20th century American art. Central to the collection are the files of the American Art Research Council, an agency administered by the Whitney Museum between 1942 and 1948, in cooperation with thirty museums and university art departments, to document and authenticate American art. The library now serves as a repository for the AARC records. The Council compiled records of th...

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