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5 may 2001 berkeley heights , new jersey , u.s. new york city , new york , u.s. national academy of design , new york american painter , printmaker , art director and designer 23 june 1909 jules halfant
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jules halfant

jules halfant -lrb- june 23 , 1909 , new york city , new york -- may 5 , 2001 , berkeley heights , new jersey -rrb- is an american painter and printmaker .
he is notable as a federal art project -lrb- fap -rrb- artist during the great depression of the 1930s in both mural and easel categories of the new york works progress administration -lrb- wpa -rrb- .
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 -lrb- `` dybbuk '' by s. ansky , `` tevye '' by sholem aleichem , `` three wishes '' by i. l. peretz -rrb- , 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 -lrb- visual -rrb- joan baez - joan baez ◄ -lrb- 5 versions -rrb- vanguard 1960 doc watson - doc watson vanguard 1964 john hammond - big city blues -lrb- lp , album , mono -rrb- vanguard 1964 joan baez - farewell , angelina ◄ -lrb- 4 versions -rrb- vanguard 1965 buffy sainte-marie - little wheel spin and spin ◄ -lrb- 4 versions -rrb- vanguard 1966 perrey - kingsley * - the in sound from way out !
◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1966 serpent power , the - the serpent power vanguard 1967 doc watson - home again !
◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- fontana 1967 siegel-schwall band , the - say siegel-schwall ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1967 mississippi john hurt - the immortal mississippi john hurt ◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1967 circus maximus -lrb- 2 -rrb- - 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 ◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1967 listening - listening ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1968 elizabeth -lrb- 11 -rrb- - elizabeth vanguard 1968 joan baez - baptism vanguard 1968 peter walker -lrb- 4 -rrb- - `` second poem to karmela '' or gypsies are important -lrb- lp -rrb- vanguard 1968 rev. gary davis - the reverend gary davis at newport -lrb- lp -rrb- vanguard 1968 circus maximus -lrb- 2 -rrb- - neverland revisited -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard 1968 junior wells - coming at you -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard 1968 joan baez - david 's album vanguard 1969 country joe & the fish - greatest hits vanguard 1969 joan baez - joan baez vol .
2 ◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1969 ferre grignard - captain disaster major minor , barclay 1970 wildweeds - wildweeds -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard 1970 buffy sainte-marie - she used to wan na be a ballerina ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1971 country joe and the fish - the life and times of country joe and the fish from haight-ashbury to woodstock ◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1971 zager & evans - food for the mind -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard 1971 mimi & richard fariña - the best of mimi & richard fariña -lrb- 2xlp , comp -rrb- vanguard 1971 al anderson - al anderson -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard 1972 mississippi john hurt - last sessions ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1972 oregon - music of another present era ◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1972 larry coryell - offering ◄ -lrb- 4 versions -rrb- vanguard , vanguard 1972 various - the greatest songs of woody guthrie ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1972 buffy sainte-marie - moonshot ◄ -lrb- 8 versions -rrb- vanguard 1972 various - greatest folksingers of the ` sixties vanguard 1972 buffy sainte-marie - quiet places ◄ -lrb- 4 versions -rrb- vanguard 1973 country joe mcdonald - paris sessions vanguard , vanguard 1973 sivuca - sivuca ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1973 larry coryell - the real great escape ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1973 p.d.q. bach - the intimate p.d.q. bach -lrb- lp , gat -rrb- vanguard , vanguard 1973 larry coryell - planet end vanguard 1975 big mama thornton - sassy mama !
◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1975 larry coryell - the restful mind ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1975 sivuca - live at the village gate -lrb- lp -rrb- vanguard 1975 pazant bros. , the & beaufort express , the - loose and juicy -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard , vanguard 1975 camille yarbrough - the iron pot cooker -lrb- lp , album -rrb- vanguard 1975 joan baez - the joan baez lovesong album -lrb- 2xlp , comp , gat -rrb- vanguard 1976 players ' association , the - the players ' association vanguard 1977 elvin jones , james moody , clark terry , bunky green , roland prince - summit meeting ◄ -lrb- 3 versions -rrb- vanguard 1977 players association , the - born to dance ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1977 players association , the - turn the music up !
vanguard , vanguard 1979 players association , the - we got the groove !
vanguard , vanguard 1980 roni griffith - roni griffith ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1982 roni griffith - -lrb- the best part of -rrb- breakin ' up / desire vanguard 1982 p.d.q. bach - a little nightmare music ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard 1983 bert jansch with john renbourn - jack orion vanguard 1991 eric andersen -lrb- 2 -rrb- - bout changes & things vanguard 1993 carl oglesby - carl oglesby / going to damascus -lrb- cd , comp -rrb- universe -lrb- 3 -rrb- , vanguard 2003 doc watson - southbound cisco music 2005 john hammond - so many roads vanguard 2011 eric andersen -lrb- 2 -rrb- - more hits from tin can alley vanguard , comet records -lrb- 2 -rrb- year unknown baldwin and leps - baldwin and leps vanguard , comet records -lrb- 2 -rrb- year unknown oregon - friends ◄ -lrb- 2 versions -rrb- vanguard year unknown joan baez - in concert -lrb- 2xlp -rrb- vanguard year unknown
