Biographyof Rexburg, Idaho, studied at Brigham Young University. He is a landscape painter whose oils and watercolors are mostly realistic with impressionist qualities, sometimes semiabstract. Coles became a faculty member at Ricks College in Idaho. (b. April 11)
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