David Stone Martin

David Stone Martin, ca. April 1947, photo by William P. Gottlieb.

David Stone Martin (1913–1992), born David Livingstone Martin, was an influential American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz record albums.^[1]

He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was greatly influenced by the line art of Ben Shahn. By 1950, Martin had produced more than 100 covers for Mercury, Disc and Dial record albums. Many assignments came from his long time friend, record producer Norman Granz.^[2]

For various companies, Martin eventually created illustrations for more than 400 record albums. Many of these were simply line art combined with a single color. Martin's favorite tool was a crowquill pen which enabled him to do delicate line work. CBS-TV art director William Golden gave Martin many print ad assignments during the 1950s, and Martin soon expanded into illustration for Seventeen, The Saturday Evening Post and other slick magazines of the 1950s and 1960s.^[2] His studio was located in Roosevelt, New Jersey, near his home there.^[3][2]

Martin is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution. He died in 1992.^[2]

Album covers

Verve cover illustration of Billie Holiday by David Stone Martin

• All or Nothing at All , Billie Holiday, Verve
• The Astaire Story, Fred Astaire, Clef
• Billie Holiday Sings, Clef
• Bird & Diz, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Clef
• Buddy and Sweets, Norgran
• An Evening with Billie Holiday, Clef
• Jazz Giant, Bud Powell, Norgran
• Lester Young Trio, Mercury
• Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Norgran
• Love Is a Gentle Thing, Harry Belafonte, RCA
• Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington, Clef
• Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess, Verve
• Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell, Norgran
• Piano Solos, Bud Powell, Clef
• Piano Solos #2, Bud Powell, Clef
• Sing and Swing with Buddy Rich, Norgran
• Swinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Verve
• These Are the Blues, Ella Fitzgerald, Verve
• Toshiko's Piano, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Norgran

Magazine covers

• Time magazine cover archive: David Stone Martin:
  • David Merrick, 1966 March 25
  • Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 September 16
  • Inside the Viet Cong, 1967 August 25
  • Mayor Carl Stokes, 1967 November 17
  • Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, 1968 February 9
  • Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 1968 March 22
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, 1969 March 28
  • Gov. George Wallace, 1972 March 27

References

1. ^ Union LIst of Artist Names Online
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Ping, LIef. Today's Inspiration, October 2008.
3. ^ Staff. "History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey", Rutgers University Libraries. Accessed February 14, 2011.

External links

• U.S. Navy Art Collection: David Stone Martin
• David Stone Martin album covers at:
  • Birkajazz.com
  • LP Cover Lover
  • Vinyl Culture Quarterly
  • Jazz at First Sight: The Art of David Stone Martin (July–December 2010, Jazz at Lincoln Center)

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Name	Martin, David Stone
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Date of birth	1913
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Date of death	1992
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