Elaine Duillo
Elaine I. Duillo (July 28, 1928 – July 30, 2021) was an American painter and illustrator known for her romance fiction book covers. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2003. Early life Elaine studied at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, where she met John Duillo, who would also go on to become an adventure illustrator and gallery painter. She graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She began her career in 1959 illustrating adventure story magazines and gothic novels. Career Duillo is known for her prolific, eye-catching, realism painting for romance paperback covers. Her painting style is one of "characteristically flawless draftsmanship, evocative mood and compositional power", and uses "layer upon layer of transparent acrylic washes to achieve a luminous effect". She is credited not only with breaking through into a male-dominated field in the early 1960s, but with redefining romance art at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s, introducing more men and male nakedness into her cover art, and influencing other illustrators who followed her style. She is also credited with aiding the rise to fame of model Fabio Lanzoni when she began using him as a model,