Feder, Ben
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist.
(1923-2009) US real estate developer, winemaker and illustrator, the last being his first career, his cover work all dating from the 1950s and 1960s. In a manner typical of his era, he specialized in discrete emblematic images floating against neutral backgrounds. Work of interest includes covers for Robert Coover's The Origin of the Brunists (1966), Jack Finney's The Third Level (coll 1957), Robert Lindner's The Fifty-Minute Hour: A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales (coll 1955), Jerry Sohl's The Odious Ones (1959), Theodore Sturgeon's A Way Home (coll 1955), Wilson Tucker's The Lincoln Hunters (1958) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Cat's Cradle (1963). [JC]
Benjamin Feder
born New York: 1 February 1923
died Clinton Corners, New York: 24 September 2009
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