Missing Music Artwork

Hi,
I recently synced my iPhone 5 to my Macbook Pro (Retina Display) and after doing so I lost most of the album artwork for my songs (I have iOS 8.1 on my phone and iTunes version 12.0.1.26). All of the album artwork is present in my iTunes library for all my songs yet on my phone most all of my songs are missing their artwork. Is there any simple fix for this? I don't understand how this could've happened since I didn't specifically tell iTunes to remove the artwork; this seems like something that would be done manually but instead happened automatically. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

I Have the same issue. At all other views, album, song, lists, including landscape view, the artwork are visible. The only problematc view is Artist View; most of artist show the generic silver box! Any solutions????

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