About: Cleo Damianakes

Cleo Theodora Damianakes (March 1, 1895 – August 27, 1979), nom de plume Cleon or Cleonike, was an American etcher, painter, and illustrator. She was widely known for designing dust jackets for Lost Generation writers in the 1920s and early 1930s, including cover art for the first editions of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men, which were published by Scribners. Other authors she designed covers for included novelists such as Zelda Fitzgerald, Conrad Aitken, John Galsworthy, and Arthur B. Reeve. A Greek American, Damianakes was critically acclaimed for the classical Greek influence in her etchings, and was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, which awarded her a medal in 1922. Her work is now part of t