Robert Vickrey
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Robert Remsen Vickrey was an American artist and author based in Massachusetts who specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera. His paintings are surreal dreamlike visions of sunset shadows of bi
Vickrey's 1957 Time cover.
Vickrey's 1961 Time cover of J.D. Salinger.
J. D. Salinger
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Jerome David Salinger was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. I
Robert Vickrey
…was one of the illustrators of Time covers during the period from 1942 to 1966, which has been called the golden age of Time covers. His portrait of J.D. Salinger, from a 1961 Time cover, was hung at the National Gallery of Art following the writer's death in 2010. Other cover artists during this period included…
Salinger in 1950
Where Salinger grew up, 1133 Park Avenue in Manhattan
Cover and spine of The Catcher in the Rye, first edition