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Francis Cugat was an artist whose most famous work was the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....
 by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
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Francis Cugat was an artist whose most famous work was the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....
 by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
.

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
Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat, born Francesc d'As?s Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu was a Spanish people-Cuban peoplen-United States bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba....
. The Cugat family emigrated to Cuba in 1903. It is also known that at one time, Francis was a designer in Hollywood for Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
 and had a 1942 show in New York, well after his famous work for The Great Gatsby.

Resume of Known Work


Celestial Eyes - A painting for the cover of The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....
, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
.

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