TIMOTHY COLE WILL LECTURE ON WOOD ENGRAVING TUESDAY

Mr. Timothy Cole, the veteran wood-engraver, will lecture at the Fogg Museum on the art which he has so long practiced with distinction on Tuesday. In these days of cheap, mechanical, and rapid-process work, for purposes of reproduction, there is little demand on the part of publishers of books and magazines for the kind of personal interpretation in black and white, which a generation and more ago called into being Kingsley, King, Church, Kruel, and a host of others whose names were then household words. To the rising generation the very names of those honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only a very few magazine publishers and by occasional collectors and amateurs, who still prefer the once popular engraving to the photograph or process reproduction.

Mr. Cole was born in London in 1852, and at five years of age came to New York with his father. He was apprenticed to the trade at sixteen, and after the Chicago fire left the firm of Bond & Chandler and found work for a short time with a New York periodical, called "Hearth and Home," before joining the "Christian Weekly." On the failure of Sutton's "Aldine Press" the late Alexander W. Drake called Mr. Cole into the service of the then "Scribner's Monthly," later known as the "Century Magazine." For the "Century" he has done the major part of his work during a series of many years, and for that magazine he went abroad in 1883 and for ten years was occupied in engraving on wood great Italian masterpieces. Another four years were then spent in engraving Dutch and Flemish pictures, and in 1896 he started a similar work on English art which was followed in 1900 by work in Spain. In 1910 he finished his commission on a series of French paintings. After an absence of twenty-seven years he returned to America, and still in the employ of the "Century" he began at once a new series known as "Masterpieces in American Galleries."

During this active and honorable career his distinguished talent has been everywhere recognized, and at American and European expositions he is invariably awarded gold medals and honorable mention. The Guild of Craftsmen in London has elected him an honorary member.