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Adlar, Samuel M. [1898-1979. USA. Painter/Illustrator]

 

Samuel M. Adler was born in New York City in 1898 and studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York. Initially he pursued a career as a concert violinist, but switched back to art in 1933. He subsequently worked as a painter and illustrator. He also taught at New York University.

He formed the Adler-Lubalin partnership with Herb Lubalin and together they designed a number of book jackets in the 1940s.

Adler held his first solo exhibition at the Joseph Luyber Galleries in New York in 1948. He painted numerous paintings of Jewish life and culture. He died in 1979.


Jacket of Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1941), designed by Samuel M. Adler and Herb Lubalin of Adler-Lubalin

Jacket of Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1941), designed by Samuel M. Adler and Herb Lubalin of Adler-Lubalin