Cleo Damianakes

Cleo Damianakes
Damianakes in 1917
Born	Cleo Theodora Damianakes (1895-03-01)March 1, 1895 Berkeley, California, US
Died	August 27, 1979(1979-08-27) (aged 84) Alameda, California, US
Other names	Cleon, Cleonike, Cleo Wilkins
Education	The California School of Fine Arts University of California, Berkeley Art Students League of New York
Occupation(s)	Illustrator and etcher
Known for	Book dust jackets
Spouse	Ralph Brooks Wilkins ​ ​ (m. 1924)​

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 Aiken, John Galsworthy, and Arthur B. Reeve.

A Greek American, Damianakes was critically acclaimed for the classical Greek influence in her etchings,^[1][2] and was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, which awarded her a medal in 1922.^[3][4] Her work is now part of the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and others. Married to fellow artist and book jacket designer Ralph Brooks Wilkins, she was known later in life as Cleo Wilkins.