David Stone Martin

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David Stone Martin (born June 13, 1913 in Chicago , Illinois as David Livingstone Martin , † March 6, 1992 in New London , Connecticut) was an American painter and graphic artist , who was best known for his illustrations for jazz album covers.

David Stone Martin, circa April 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Life

David Stone Martin studied at the Art Institute of Chicago , where he graduated in 1935. During the Depression, Martin worked on a mural project for the Works Progress Administration ; In 1935 he was invited to work as an artist for the Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville. During World War II, he was Art Director in the Office of War Information in New York . There he met Ben Shahn , with whom he worked and who had a strong stylistic influence. At the end of the war he belonged to the Associated American Artist Group and from then on worked as a freelancer after contract work for companies like Lucky Strike or Abbott Laboratories. He also taught at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in 1948/40 and at the Workshop School of Advertising and Editorial Art in New York in 1950. The jazz fan Martin was friends with the pianist Mary Lou Williams , and when she recorded an album for Asch Records in 1944, she was able to convince Moses Asch to let Martin design the cover; this was the first album he designed.

The trumpeter logo designed by Martin on a Clef 78 from Billie Holiday : "Stormy" / "Tenderly" (1952)

In the 1940s he continued to work for Asch and also for record companies such as Disc and Stinson. His reputation, however, is mainly based on the collaboration with Norman Granz , with whom he was friends. David Stone Martin's first commission from Granz was to design a logo for the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts and tours. He designed the famous trumpeter logo for this, which was also to be seen on the early '78 and later records of the concerts that were distributed by Mercury Records .

From the early 1950s, Martin created over a hundred different illustrations for album covers for the Grantz labels Clef , Norgran and Verve as well as for Mercury and Dial . Many of these orders were created for LPs and others. a. by Count Basie , Tal Farlow , Charlie Parker , Illinois Jacquet , Bud Powell , Art Tatum , Stan Getz , Lester Young and many other musicians.

In the course of his career, Martin finally created illustrations for over 400 records, including a. for Decca , Capitol and RCA Victor , in the 70s and 80s also covers for Pablo , Progressive and other labels. It was characterized by its simple lines, which were usually combined with a single color. Martin's preferred tool was a quill pen . He received further assignments during the 1950s from the CBS art director William Golden; Martin then also worked as a book illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s; u. a. He designed Alan Lomax 's book on Jelly Roll Morton ( Doctor Jazz ) and also created posters and covers with portraits of Robert F. Kennedy , Eugene McCarthy , Mao Zedong and George C. Wallace for Time , Seventeen , The Saturday Evening Post and magazines further publications.

His studio was in Roosevelt, New Jersey . His work is on display at the Museum of Modern Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian Institution . He won numerous awards, including a. the Society of Illustrators and the Art Directors Clubs of New York City, Boston, and Detroit. David Stone Martin died in 1992.

Cover

Albums
Magazines

Fonts

  • The art of drawing with pencil, pen and brush New York, Grumbacher 1973
  • Zs. With Manek Daver: Jazz graphics . Tokyo, Graphic-Sha, 1991.
Cooperation
  • Beatrice David Laneck / David Stone Martin: Songs to Grow On New York, Edward Marks / William Sloan, 1950
  • Henry Chapin: Tigertail - The Game Chicken, Illustrated by David Stone Martin . New York, William R. Scott, 1965
  • Evangeline Morse, Illustrated by David Stone Martin: Brown Rabbit: Her Story . Illinois Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1967
  • Pauline Tabor / David Stone Martin: Pauline's - Memoirs of the Madam on Clay Street . Louisville, Touchtone Publishing 1972
  • Bea Stadtler: The Holocaust. A History of Courage and Resistance . Edited by Mossison David Bial. Illustrated by David Stone Martin. West Orange (NJ), Behrman House, 1973.
  • Jimmy Lyons, Ira Kamin, David Stone Martin (Illustr.): Dizzy, Duke, the Count, and Me: The Story of the Monterey Jazz Festival San Francisco Examiner Division of the Hearst Corp 1978
  • Jelly Roll Morton / Alan Lomax : Doctor Jazz. Mister Jelly Rolls Morality from Jazz . With drawings by David Stone Martin. Zurich, Sanssouci, 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in The New York Times, March 8, 1992.
  2. ↑ Biography of David Stone Martin in "White Collar Radicals: Tva's Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and ...", by Aaron D. Purcell, 2009, p. 30
  3. ↑ a b Image archive of the LP cover at Birkajazz.com
  4. ↑ a b c d Ping, LIef. Today's Inspiration , October 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Martin, David Stone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, David Livingstone (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1992
Place of death New London (Connecticut)