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Cleonike Damianakes (1895–1979) was an American illustrator, especially of book dust jackets.
Damianakes was born in Berkeley, California. She was an undergraduate at the University of California.
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.
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)".
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.
Her second marriage was to Ralph Wilkins, and she was later also known as Cleonike or Cleo Wilkins.
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. p. 113. ISBN 0-8476-8544-6.
- 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.