What is the name of the first edition dust jacket artwork?

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The first-edition dust jacket artwork for The Great Gatsby is named Celestial Eyes.

Spanish painter Francis Cugat created the Art Deco design in 1924 while F. Scott Fitzgerald was still completing the novel. The image shows a floating flapper-like face, luminous eyes, scarlet lips, a tear, and a glittering night landscape. Cugat was reportedly paid $100 for the commission.

The cover is especially notable because Fitzgerald may have seen preliminary versions while writing and incorporated related imagery into the novel. Readers often connect the eyes with the billboard of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg in the Valley of Ashes, although the artwork can also evoke Daisy Buchanan and the novel’s broader themes of desire, spectacle, and illusion. The book itself was published by Scribner’s on April 10, 1925.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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