Joseph Clement Coll
(1881-1921) |
| Although J. C.
Coll received no formal art training as a youth, he developed his
talent by studying the works of artists such as Edward Austin Abbey
and Howard Pyle, and particularly those of Spanish artist Daniel
Vierge. He further developed his quick, dramatic strength of line as
a young newspaper artist in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. But
it was Coll’s vivid imagination that would lead to book and magazine
commissions for the exotic stories of authors like Author Conan
Doyle and Sax Rohmer. Unfortunately Coll’s burgeoning career was cut
short by appendicitis at age forty. |
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| The Mottled Butterfly |
1920 |
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Pen on academy
board, 15 inches x 23 inches |
| "The Mottled
Butterfly," Melville Davidson Post, Redbook Magazine,
1920. |
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