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Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta Georgia and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York. She became known for her portraits of the New York art world in the 1980s.

Her works are in numerous public and corporate collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Kunsthaus, Zurich and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. She has shown internationally at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Scalo, New York and Zurich, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, ClampArt, New York and Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome.

John Lurie

Stuart Pivar

Salomé, one of the members of the art group Junge Wilde (Wild Youth)

Rainer Fetting and Desmond

Willem Dafoe

Cindy Sherman

Robert Mapplethorpe

Bianca Jagger

Ryuichi Sakamoto

John Waters

William S. Burroughs

Vincent Gallo

Keith Haring

Francesco Clemente

Julian Schnabel

Matt Dillon and Dennis Hopper

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol

Jean-Michel Basquiat

At many points in its almost 91-year history, TIME has offered up its iconic red border as a canvas, and asked renowned artists to illustrate the top stories of the day. From the striking Roy Lichtenstein pop art that accompanied a June 21, 1968 cover story on “The Gun in America” (see below) to Marc Chagall’s self-portrait that began our July 30, 1965 issue, readers have become accustomed to seeing cover images that have been painted, sculpted, collaged and transformed by some of the world’s most visionary talents.

December 14, 1936: Surrealist Salvador Dali