David Stone Martin Revisits Omar Khayyam

"Lovely as they are, the verses of Omar Khayyam sound slightly out of tune in the panorama of our time. Yet what they say to us is as true today as it was eight centuries ago. here then, is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, recast into contemporary terms - in the way Mr. Khayyam would write them if he were living among us now." ~ from the dust jacket of Omar Khayyam Revisited, 1974

DSM in RD

David Stone Martin is an illustrator I'm still just beginning to learn about - but I'm already in love with his work, even from the little I've seen.

I knew he had done many album covers during the 50's (hundreds, in fact) and I have a few pieces he did for Collier's magazine, but it's thanks to Dominic Bugatto, who contributed these scans, that I came to realize that DSM did work for Reader's Digest as well.

You'll find three more pieces by this artist in my David Stone Martin Flickr set. If you'd like to see an amazing collection of 50's jazz album covers, with many by David Stone Martin, click here.