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| Damianakes was born in ].<ref name="Salisbury">{{cite book |last1=Salisbury |first1=Martin |title=The illustrated dust jacket, 1920-1970 |date=2017 |location=London |isbn=9780500519134 |pages=62-65 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Illustrated_Dust_Jacket_1920_1970/EAZ5AQAACAAJ?hl=en |access-date=20 September 2022}}</ref> She was an undergraduate at the ],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Leff |first=Leonard J. |title=Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=1997 |isbn=0-8476-8544-6 |location=Lanham, Maryland and Oxford, England |pages=51,113}}</ref> and moved to ] after receiving a scholarship to the ].<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 2, 1925 |title=Artist known at Tarpon Springs |page=4 |work=] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110162167/artis-known-at-tarpon-springs/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=]}}</ref> | Damianakes was born in ].<ref name="Salisbury">{{cite book |last1=Salisbury |first1=Martin |title=The illustrated dust jacket, 1920-1970 |date=2017 |location=London |isbn=9780500519134 |pages=62-65 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Illustrated_Dust_Jacket_1920_1970/EAZ5AQAACAAJ?hl=en |access-date=20 September 2022}}</ref> She was an undergraduate at the ],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Leff |first=Leonard J. |title=Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=1997 |isbn=0-8476-8544-6 |location=Lanham, Maryland and Oxford, England |pages=51,113}}</ref> and moved to ] after receiving a scholarship to the ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=November 2, 1925 |title=Artist known at Tarpon Springs |page=4 |work=] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110162167/artis-known-at-tarpon-springs/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=]}}</ref> | ||
| == Career == | == Career == | ||
| In 1925, two paintings by Cleon were chosen as cover designs for the October and Christmas issues of ].<ref name=":1" /> | |||
| === Covers for Hemingway === | === Covers for Hemingway === | ||
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Cleonike Damianakes (1895–1979), known by the nom de plume Cleon, was an American illustrator, especially of book dust jackets.
Early life and education
Damianakes was born in Berkeley, California. She was an undergraduate at the University of California, and moved to New York after receiving a scholarship to the Art Students League.
Career
In 1925, two paintings by Cleon were chosen as cover designs for the October and Christmas issues of Scribner's Magazine.
Covers for Hemingway
She designed dust jackets for Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (All the Sad Young Men), hired by editor Maxwell Perkins to create covers that would appeal to female readers for Scribner's.
For The Sun Also Rises, she drew a seated Hellenic figure in front of a small desiccated tree, head bent, wearing a billowing robe exposing her left thigh. With her right hand draped over her left knee and an apple in the other hand, the design "breathed sex yet also evoked classical Greece." Author Leonard Leff writes, "What Cecile B. de Mille's 'studies in diminishing draperies' had done for Hollywood, the artist Cleonike Damianakes had done for Scribners: 'Cleon' had made sex respectable."
Hemingway did not like her cover art for A Farewell to Arms, and wrote to Perkins about its "lousy and completely unattractive decadence i.e. large misplaced breasts etc ...the awful legs on the woman or the gigantic belly muscles (on the man)".
Other designs
She also did designs for Zelda Fitzgerald (Save Me the Waltz), Conrad Aiken, and David Hamilton. She designed the cover for David Burnham's first novel This Our Exile. She designed the cover of Arthur B. Reeve's Pandora in 1926.
Personal life
Her second marriage was to Ralph Wilkins, and she was later also known as Cleonike or Cleo Wilkins.
Legacy
Six of her etchings are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. Her work is also in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
References
- ^ Salisbury, Martin (2017). The illustrated dust jacket, 1920-1970. London. pp. 62–65. ISBN 9780500519134. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Leff, Leonard J. (1997). Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford, England: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 51, 113. ISBN 0-8476-8544-6.
- ^ "Artist known at Tarpon Springs". The Tampa Tribune. November 2, 1925. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- Hilbert, Ernest (December 18, 2017). "Book World: A colorful history of judging books by their covers". Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Gale OneFile.
- "This Our Exile David BURNHAM". Bauman Rare Books. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- "Cleo Damianakes". The National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- "Cleo Damianakes". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- "Cleo Damianakes". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- "Wind Cleo Damianakes (American, 1895-1979)". Indianapolis Museum of Art. Retrieved 21 September 2022.