Alphaeus Philemon Cole

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

Life

He 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 Academie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and Jean- Joseph Benjamin -Constant at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts and Italy. From 1924 to 1931 he taught portrait and still life painting at New York's Cooper Union.

Cole was a member of many art associations and academies, including the Lyme Connecticut Art Association and the National Academy of Design, in which he was elected in 1930. The National Arts Club appointed him even an honorary member. In addition, he was the Allied Artists of America ( 1952-1953 ) and the New York Watercolor Society as president before.

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

Even until his 103rd birthday Cole did produce artistic. Since the death of Herman Smith Johannsen - January 5, 1987, he was the oldest living man in the world, but this was not discovered until after his death. Cole surpassed on 18 January 1988 to date the age of the längstlebigen husband, the British John Mosely Turner, and was male age world record holder until January 2, 1990, after the Briton John Evans was older than Cole's 112 years and 136 days became. To this day, Cole is the oldest artists of all time.

Work

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

His art works he presented regularly at the Salon des Artistes Francais, at London's Royal Academy and at various New York exhibitions, including the Salmagundi Club, where he served since 1918.

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