Joseph Lombardero

Cover illustrator. Born: 1922 in Tampa, Florida. Died: 2004 in Arkansas. Joseph Lombardero studied design at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. He moved to New York in 1948, working for Sudler & Hennessey as an illustrator specializing in pharmaceutical illustrations. In the 1960s he began to illustrate book covers, primarily in the science fiction genre and for the Time-Life Science series. He also illustrated record jacket covers for RCA, Capitol, Camden and EMI, primarily in the classical and jazz genre.