1. Robert G Cato was an American photographer and graphic designer whose work in record album cover design contributed to the development of music and popular culture for five decades.
12 Facts About Bob Cato
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Bob Cato was vice president of creative services at Columbia Records, and later at United Artists.
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Bob Cato was born in 1923 to Cuban immigrant Ysabel Soto and Robert Bailey Cato in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Bob Cato then lived in Chicago, studying with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy of the Bauhaus school.
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Bob Cato painted and exhibited throughout the 1940s and 1950s, while serving as art director at Dance, Glamour, Jr.
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Bob Cato began working in the music industry in 1959 at Columbia Records, becoming vice president of creative services there and later at United Artists.
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Bob Cato served for many years on the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences advisory council.
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Bob Cato produced the book Joyce Images, a collection of photos and art devoted to James Joyce.
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Bob Cato taught, at the School of Visual Arts and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Bob Cato was married to Kate Jennings, an Australian writer, poet and novelist, in 1988.
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Bob Cato died as a result of complications of Alzheimer's disease in 1999 in New York City.
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Bob Cato's archive is at the Rochester Institute of Technology.