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"One of the last men to stick exclusively to pen-and-ink as an art medium," according to his obituary in the New York Times, and now generally considered one of the greatest virtuosos in the use of pen-and-ink, Coll was an artist who "brought art to a rare degree into the field of illustration," according to a review of an exhibition of his work sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, after his death.
Biography.
Many of his finest illustrations were done for science fiction and fantasy stories, by Sax Rohmer and Arthur Conan Doyle, among many others.
Coll was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Irish immigrant parents.
His father was a book binder, so Coll was exposed to books and illustrations all of his life. Born during a period when pen-and-ink illustration was at one of its highest points, Coll was most strongly influenced by the Spanish artist Daniel Vierge.
He also thought highly of American illustrators Edwin Austin Abbey, Howard Pyle, an