TF cover art question

Aesthetics Visual Arts
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I have not been able to find out who the artist is and the title of this artwork that is on the cover of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead - Signet, NY, 1952 First printing, paperback edition. A person I know owns a copy and has told me that they were unable to find information about it in the book itself. I also looked around online some for more information. Nothing.

Here it is:

http://www.papertig.com/images/rand/Fountainhead_PB_1st_front.jpg

Site:

http://www.papertig.com/soldweb/rand.htm

Anyone know?

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Have you tried contacting the publisher?  The archives at ARI?

 

(75 cents was a lot of money for a paperback in 1952.  That was the price ten years later; Atlas Shrugged was 95.)

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Have you tried contacting the publisher?  The archives at ARI?

I hadn’t, but since you posted that, I thought it was a good idea, so I have emailed the ARI archives with an inquiry. Thank you.

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ARI archive responded to my inquiry.

James Avati is the name of the artist.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hangfirebooks/2700481200/in/photostream/

I’m going to look more at his art later when I have time.