Alphaeus Philemon Cole

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Alphaeus Philemon Cole (around 1920)

Alphaeus Philemon Cole (born July 12, 1876 in Jersey City , New Jersey , † November 25, 1988 in New York ) was an American artist and supercentenarian .

Life

Alphaeus Philemon Cole was born the son of the famous engraver Timothy Cole in the state of New Jersey . From 1893 to 1901 Cole studied in Paris at the Académie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant , at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and in Italy . From 1924 to 1931 he taught portrait and still life painting at the New York Cooper Union .

Cole was a member of numerous artist associations and academies, including the Lyme Connecticut Art Association and the National Academy of Design , of which he was elected a full member ( NA ) in 1941 . The National Arts Club even made him an honorary member. He was also president of the Allied Artists of America (1952-1953) and the New York Watercolor Society (1931-1941).

He was married to a sculptor twice : from 1903 to 1961 to Margaret Ward Wamsley and from 1962 to 1973 to Anita Rio Higgins. Both marriages ended due to the death of the spouse. His friends included John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase , while he despised the works of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner .

Until his 103rd birthday, Cole excelled artistically. Since the death of Herman Smith-Johannsen on January 5, 1987, he has been the oldest living man in the world, but this was not established until after his death. According to the current state of research, Cole exceeded the age of the longest-lived man John Mosely Turner on January 18, 1988 and was the holder of the male age record until January 2, 1990, after which John Evans was older than Coles 112 years and 136 days. To this day, Cole is the oldest artist of all time.

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His early work in the mid-1890s included many vivid works, mostly still lifes and portraits . He preferred oil and water colors. In 1901 he showed some of his works of art at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo ; the Encyclopædia Britannica included an illustration from 1903 in its edition. Cole later ventured into the field of wood and stone engravings and etchings . However, they mostly sold worse than his portraits.

He presented his works of art regularly in the Salon des Artistes Francais, in the London Royal Academy and at various New York exhibitions. a. in the Salmagundi Club founded in 1871 , to which he has been a member since 1918.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "C" / Cole, Alphaeus Philemon NA 1941 ( Memento from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Summary of the Alphaeus P. Cole papers, 1885-1988

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personal data
SURNAME Cole, Alphaeus Philemon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cole, Alphaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist, engraver, illustrator, and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1988
Place of death New York City , New York , United States