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Nationality
American
Name
Jules Halfant
Role
Artist
Born
June 23, 1909 (
1909-06-23
)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Known for
Painter, printmaker, art director and designer
Died
May 5, 2001, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States
Education
National Academy Museum and School
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Jules Halfant (June 23, 1909 in New York City, New York – May 5, 2001 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) is an American painter and printmaker. 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). 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.
While attending high school in Brooklyn, New York with Jacob Kainen, 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. He provided the illustrations for Jazz, A People's Music, a 1948 study by Marxist art critic Sidney Finkelstein. 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.
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
Serpent Power, The - The Serpent Power Vanguard 1967
Doc Watson - Home Again! ◄ (2 versions) Fontana 1967
Siegel-Schwall Band, The - Say Siegel-Schwall ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1967
Mississippi John Hurt - The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1967
Circus Maximus (2) - 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
