James Avati, a respected artist who was considered a “genius” in the cover-art world “the king of the paperback covers” …
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James Avati – Tobacco Road (1951)
James Avati – sketch for ‘The World of Suzie Wong’
James Avati – photo of model Zan for ‘Lola: A Dark Mirror’ (1959)
James Avati – cover painting for Erskine Caldwell’s ‘Love and Money’
James Avati – cover painting forJames T. Farrell’s ‘A World I Never Made’.
James Avati: cover painting for Nadine Gordimer’s ‘The Lying Days’
James Avati – painting for ‘Juniper Island’, with model Zan posing. Insert: Avati’s photograph
James Avati – God’s High Table (1973)
James Avati – Making Time (1980)
My mother Martha Young posed for Jim, a close family friend, for a book cover in the 1980’s. I’d really like to find it and gift her with a copy. She doesn’t remember the books name and never got one. can you help me? thank you, Stephanie
I was one of Jim’s models and also his friend. How he managed to paint, raise kids, shop, cook, and be a good friend was a miracle. His life was a celebration to those who knew him. I thought that he would never grow old.
[...] of these often edgy literary works. A convert to the Mormon faith and a resident of Maine, “Zan” is, according to Sally, “not crazy about a lot of the things she posed for back then…some of [...]
[...] of these often edgy literary works. A convert to the Mormon faith and a resident of Maine, “Zan” is, according to Sally, “not crazy about a lot of the things she posed for back [...]