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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.〔’’The Art of Jules Halfant. 60 Years of American Art”, by Deborah Matlack, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA, 1999〕〔http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2027〕〔http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=9843〕 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).〔’’Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975’’, Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor), 3 volumes, South View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999〕〔’’Davenport’s Art Reference’’. The Gold Edition, Davenport, Ray (Editor), Davenport Publishing, 2005〕〔‘’The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944,’’ by Clark S. Marlor, Noyes Data Corporation/Noyes Publications, 1984〕 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,〔Oral history interview with Jacob Kainen, 1982 Aug. 10-Sept. 22, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution〕 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.〔Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Box 10, folder 2.〕 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.〔http://www.newsjunkyjournal.com/concert-poster-collector-offers-5000-for-original-1960’s-bob-dylan-posters/2511478/〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/nyregion/neighborhood-report-downtown-brooklyn-free-tales-mr-kafka-s-crypt-thousands.html〕 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 *Listening - Listening ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1968 *Elizabeth (11) - Elizabeth Vanguard 1968 *Joan Baez - Baptism Vanguard 1968 *Peter Walker (4) - "Second Poem To Karmela" Or Gypsies Are Important (LP) Vanguard 1968 *Rev. Gary Davis - The Reverend Gary Davis At Newport (LP) Vanguard 1968 *Circus Maximus (2) - Neverland Revisited (LP, Album) Vanguard 1968 *Junior Wells - Coming At You (LP, Album) Vanguard 1968 *Joan Baez - David's Album Vanguard 1969 *Country Joe & The Fish - Greatest Hits Vanguard 1969 *Joan Baez - Joan Baez Vol. 2 ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1969 *Ferre Grignard - Captain Disaster Major Minor, Barclay 1970 *Wildweeds - Wildweeds (LP, Album) Vanguard 1970 *Buffy Sainte-Marie - She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1971 *Country Joe And The Fish - The Life And Times Of Country Joe And The Fish From Haight-Ashbury To Woodstock ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1971 *Zager & Evans - Food For The Mind (LP, Album) Vanguard 1971 *Mimi & Richard Fariña - The Best Of Mimi & Richard Fariña (2xLP, Comp) Vanguard 1971 *Al Anderson - Al Anderson (LP, Album) Vanguard 1972 *Mississippi John Hurt - Last Sessions ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1972 *Oregon - Music Of Another Present Era ◄ (3 versions) Vanguard 1972 *Larry Coryell - Offering ◄ (4 versions) Vanguard, Vanguard 1972 *Various - The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie ◄ (2 versions) Vanguard 1972 *Buffy Sainte-Marie - Moonshot ◄ (8 versions) Vanguard 1972 *Various - Greatest Folksingers Of The 'Sixties Vanguard 1972 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jules Halfant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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