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Jules Halfant
Born
(1909-06-23)June 23, 1909
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died
May 5, 2001(2001-05-05) (aged 91)
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.
Education
National Academy of Design, New York
Known for
Painter, printmaker, art director and designer
Jules Halfant (June 23, 1909 in New York City, New York – May 5, 2001 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) was an American painter and printmaker.[1][2][3] He is notable as a Federal Art Project (FAP) artist during the Great Depression of the 1930s in both mural and easel categories of the New York Works Progress Administration (WPA).[4][5][6] While in the WPA, he worked alongside such well-known artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery and Stuart Davis. From 1953 to 1988 Jules Halfant was Art Director of Vanguard Records where he designed albums featuring Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Country Joe and the Fish, Buffy Sainte-Marie and many other musicians.[1]
While attending high school in Brooklyn, New York with Jacob Kainen,[7] Jules submitted his drawings to the National Academy of Design in New York at age of fourteen. He was accepted as a student and studied there in 1924-1927. During the 1930s and 1940s, Jules Halfant created hundreds of paintings depicting street scenes of New York City.[8] He provided the illustrations for Jazz, A People's Music, a 1948 study by Marxist art critic Sidney Finkelstein. He did many record covers for EMS Recordings,
Halfant painted his neighbors, parents, friends, shopkeepers, pushcart vendors. Beginning in the 1950s, the artist started to focus on painting Jewish religious and cultural life. He got inspiration from works of great Jewish authors (Dybbuk by S. Ansky, Tevye by Sholem Aleichem, Three Wishes by I. L. Peretz), Biblical stories as well from visiting synagogues where he depicted different aspects of the services and holidays observances. In 1963, Jules Halfant designed the Bob Dylan New York City Town Hall Concert poster.[9][10]
Collections
Brooklyn Museum, New York City, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection
Discography (Visual)
Joan Baez - Joan Baez ◄ (5 versions) Vanguard 1960
Doc Watson - Doc Watson Vanguard 1964
John Hammond - Big City Blues (LP, Album, Mono) Vanguard 1964
Joan Baez - Farewell, Angelina ◄ (4 versions) Vanguard 1965
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin and Spin ◄ (4 versions) Vanguard 1966
Perrey - Kingsley* - The In Sound from Way Out! ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1966
The Serpent Power - The Serpent Power Vanguard 1967
Doc Watson - Home Again! ◄ (2 versions) Fontana 1967
The Siegel-Schwall Band - Say Siegel-Schwall ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1967
Mississippi John Hurt - The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1967
Circus Maximus - Circus Maximus Vanguard 1967
Charley Musselwhite - Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band Vanguard 1967
Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1967
Roni Griffith - (The Best Part of) Breakin' Up / Desire Vanguard 1982
P.D.Q. Bach - A Little Nightmare Music ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1983
Bert Jansch with John Renbourn - Jack Orion Vanguard 1991
Eric Andersen - Bout Changes & Things Vanguard 1993
Carl Oglesby - Carl Oglesby / Going to Damascus (CD, Comp) Universe (3), Vanguard 2003
Doc Watson - Southbound Cisco Music 2005
John Hammond - So Many Roads Vanguard 2011
Eric Andersen - More Hits from Tin Can Alley Vanguard, Comet Records (2) Year unknown
Baldwin and Leps - Baldwin and Leps Vanguard, Comet Records (2) Year unknown
Oregon - Friends ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard Year unknown
Joan Baez - In Concert (2xLP) Vanguard Year unknown
^ abThe Art of Jules Halfant. 60 Years of American Art", by Deborah Matlack, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA, 1999
^"Jules Halfant | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
^"Dead End | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
^Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor), 3 volumes, South View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999
^Davenport's Art Reference. The Gold Edition, Davenport, Ray (Editor), Davenport Publishing, 2005
^The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944, by Clark S. Marlor, Noyes Data Corporation/Noyes Publications, 1984
^Oral history interview with Jacob Kainen, 1982 Aug. 10-Sept. 22, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
^Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Box 10, folder 2.
^"IIS 10.0 详细错误 - 404.11 - Not Found".
^Crow, Kelly (28 October 2001). "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN; Free Tales from Mr. Kafka's Crypt, (And Thousands of Records, Too)". The New York Times.
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