The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel’s Illustrator Aya Morton’s Admiration of Vincent Van Gogh and Company

Stephen F Austin State University, Baker Pattillo Student Center, Student Center Theatre and Twilight Ballroom

I chose to study F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby alongside Aya Morton's recent graphic novel adaptation. As scholars have noted the influence that modernist art had on Fitzgerald's writing style, I explored the influence that — impressionists and post-impressionist artists — had on Morton's renditions.