biography of Ralph Pallen COLEMAN (1892-1968)

Birth place: Philadelphia, PA

Addresses: Jenkintown, PA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, lecturer

Studied: PMSchIA.

Member: Woodmere A. Gal.; NSMP; Old York Rd. A. Gld., Jenkintown, Pa.

Work: Paintings and murals for churches in Jenkintown, Lancaster, Montoursville, Pa.; Wilmington, Del., Buffalo, N.Y., Madison, Wis., Pottstown, Pa., Philadelphia, Pa., and a series of paintings on the life of Christ in the George Washington Memorial Park, White Marsh, Pa.; 3 Portraits in 103rd Engineers Armory, Phila., Pa.; Messiah Lutheran Church, Phila., Pa.; New Haven Hospital; Old York Rd. Country Club, Jenkintown, Pa.; Am.-Swedish Hist. Mus., Phila.; 24 stained glass windows, Grace Presbyterian Church, Jenkintown, Pa.

Comments: Lectures: The Life of Jesus Through an Artist's Brush," and "From the Ridiculous to the Sublime", with color slides of Coleman's paintings, to churches & organization. Illustrator: U.S., Canadian magazines; books by authors such as W. Somerset Maugham ("The Narrow Corner"); Donald F. Irvin (17 paintings for "Life of Christ"); Rex Beach; Clarence Buddington Kelland; Louis Bromfield; Temple Bailey; 42 paintings for Coleman edition of "Hurlbuts' Story of the Bible"; 55 paintings for "The Way, The Truth and the Life" (which won Phila. book award, 1959)."