Francis Cugat
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Francis Cugat (born 1893—1981[citation needed]) was an artist whose most famous work was the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Little is known of Cugat other than that he was born in Spain in 1893 and was the older brother of bandleader Xavier Cugat.[2] The Cugat family emigrated to Cuba in 1903.[3] It is also known that at one time, Francis was a designer in Hollywood for Douglas Fairbanks and had a 1942 show in New York, well after his famous work for The Great Gatsby.[2]
[edit] Résumé of Known Work
Celestial Eyes - A painting for the cover of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Technicolor Color Consultant for the 1955 movie "Three for the Show".
Technicolor Color Consultant for the John Ford/John Wayne film "The Quiet Man".
[edit] References
- ^ Tate, Mary Jo (2007). Critical companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald: a literary reference to his life and work. Infobase Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 9780816064335. http://books.google.com/books?id=C90C_Du_lKIC&lpg=PA88&pg=PA88#v=onepage&f=false.
- ^ a b Article on dust jacket for The Great Gatsby.
- ^ Internet Movie Database Biography of Xavier Cugat.
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