1922 editions of the U. S. Naval Academy yearbook, Lucky Bag. Personal life From 1905 until his death, Phillips lived and worked in New Rochelle, New York. His work habits were regular; his other activities included raising pigeons, a hobby he had pursued from the age of eight years. In December 1907 Phillips met Teresa Hyde, a nurse who became his most frequent model during his early years. They married in early 1910. In 1924 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the kidney (Renal TB), and for the remainder of his life he was frequently ill. In January 1927, when problems with his eyesight made painting difficult, he dedicated himself to writing. Phillips died in New Rochelle at his home, of his kidney ailment on June 13, 1927, at the age of forty-seven. The funeral service was held on June 14 at the Sutton Manor home in New Rochelle and officiated by the Rev. Paul Gordon Favour from Trinity Episcopal Church of New Rochelle. Artist and friend, J.C. Leyendecker eulogized him as an artist "unique in his field, one with a highly developed sense of decoration and color... he was ahead of most men in depicting the American type of young womanhood."<ref>All-American Girl: The Art of Coles Phillips Michael Schau, Watson-Guptill, 1975, p. 40.</ref> The body was then taken to Fresh Pond Crematory for cremation. Exhibitions Phillips's works are often exhibited alongside those of other notable graphic artists. In 2002, the Swann Gallery's “American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration,” featured Phillips, Charles Dana Gibson, Wladyslaw Benda, and Nell Brinkley, among others. Phillips was also included in the Norman Rockwell Museum's "Toast of the Town: Norman Rockwell and the Artists of New Rochelle," and in "Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection” at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University. In 2015, the Oneida Community Mansion House presented an exhibition focused on Phillips’s ads created for Oneida silverware from 1911 to 1924. Notes References Reed, Walt, Great American Illustrators, New York: Crown Publishers, 1979, Schau, Michael, and Coles Phillips, All-American Girl: the Art of Coles Phillips'', New York: Watson-Guptill, 1975, External links American Art Archives Toast of the Town: Norman Rockwell and the Artists of New Rochelle 1920–30.com art – Coles Phillips Jim Vadeboncoeur's biography of C. Coles Phillips 1880 births 1927 deaths American magazine illustrators 20th-century deaths from