Painter, printmaker, and set designer for theater and film Jon Edward Peacock was born in December 20, 1908, in New York City. Little information is found on the artist's life, though he appears to have been a successful set designer in Hollywood in the 1930s. He was a student of Arshile Gorky and George Ennis, and he lived in Palo Verdes and Hermosa Beach in California in the 1930s while employed with United Artists and 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. He exhibited at Palo Verdes Gallery (1932); Northwest Printmakers (1932 - '33); Zeitlin Gallery (Los Angeles; 1933); and Hollywood Riviera (1933). His date of death is not found.