词条 | James Avati |
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He was always interested in painting and loved to paint. After World War II, Avati obtained a job designing display windows at Fifth Avenue department stores in New York. But he continued to paint on the side and in 1948, impressed Kurt Enoch at New American Library, a new paperback publishing house. He was a hit from the beginning and changed the style of cover painting by the early 1950s. Among the authors he worked with included the likes of Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, J. D. Salinger, James T. Farrell, Pearl Buck, John O'Hara, Mickey Spillane, Erle Stanley Gardner, Alberto Moravia, and James Michener. He used professional models at first but soon used friends, family and people off the streets of Red Bank, New Jersey, his home for much of his life, as models. He sought reality in his representations on canvas and real people worked for him better than professionals. He has been called the "Father of Paperback Book Covers" and the "Rembrandt of Paperback Book Covers". Ironically, his own life mirrored the novels he painted.[2] Personal lifeAvati eventually moved to Petaluma, California, to pursue a love interest, and fathered nine children through two marriages, including a son who became a well-known sculptor, James R. Avati, of Salt Lake City, Utah. He had stopped painting towards the end as he was losing his eyesight due to macular degeneration and died (February 2005) at age 92. References1. ^Schreuders, Piet. "The Paperback Art of James Avati", in: Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 2001, p. 16. "A large portion of Avati’s youth was spent in Little Silver, a small community in Monmouth County, New Jersey, near the Atlantic coast. Sadly, Avati’s father died suddenly of pneumonia in 1928. Luckily for the boy, he had a wealthy uncle who was willing to fund his college education at Princeton. In 1935, Avati graduated from there with a degree in Architecture." 2. ^Dazzling Erin, [https://unobtainium13.com/2015/07/06/artist-profile-james-avati-1912-2005/ Artist Profile: James Avati (1912-2005)], unobtainium13.com. Retrieved 29 September 2017. Further reading
7 : 1912 births|2005 deaths|American illustrators|People from Bloomfield, New Jersey|People from Little Silver, New Jersey|People from Red Bank, New Jersey|Princeton University alumni |
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