Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Great Gatsby artwork

novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published 1925

covert art Celestial Eyes by Francis Cugat

Celestial Eyes is most celebrated and widely disseminated jacket art in 20th century American literature. The artist's image preceded the finished manuscript.

Cugat - born in Spain 1893, raised in Cuba, death date unknown
brother of orchestra leader Xavier Cugat
no other Cugat jackets have been identified
one man show in New York in 1942

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