Biografie von Coles PHILLIPS (1880-1927)

Birth place: Springfield, OH

Addresses: New Rochelle, NY

Profession: Illustrator

Studied: Chase A. Sch.

Member: New Rochelle AA. GFLA; Author's Lg. America.

Comments: Illustrator best known for his "Fadeaway Girl," so-named for his posterizing technique of linking select dress parts of a young woman to a background of identical color, thereby creating an intriguing design of shapes. Beginning in 1908, variations of his "Fadeaway Girl" appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, Liberty, McCall's, Woman's Home Companion.

Sources: WW25; add'l info. courtesy Illustration House (NYC, essay #8)