Comments on: Classic Covers: Can You Tell a Rockwell?

By: Katerine Amaya

Katerine Amaya — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:01:25 +0000

I have a clipping of a boy caring for his sick Dog and he is holdind a stop watch and taking his dogs pressure, it is not in a young state what will I need to do to preserv it ? Thanks

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:46:53 +0000

I have been trying for years to find a print I thought was by Norman Rockwell, only to be informed it was by George Hughes. It’s a dog with his ears clipped up so he can eat his dinner. Has anyone ever seen this print? Thank you!

By: TIGER

TIGER — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:44:25 +0000

i have a approx,18inx12in picture in frame of,” the saturday evening post”,(the double ride) by leslie thrasher, is it wort anything?

By: Laura Thrasher

Laura Thrasher — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:30:33 +0000

As you can see my by my name, curiosity is eating me alive. I had never heard of Leslie Thrasher before today. I can say that I see a huge difference in his work from Rockwell by the use if his color pallet. I’m very curious to learn more about him. I haven’t been able to find more than his illustrations and a brief bio with very little personal information. If you can tell more about him it would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Laura Thrasher

By: Peter Sharp

Peter Sharp — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:34:33 +0000

I too grew up with The Saturday Evening Post in ENGLAND.
It arrived promptly every week in the thirties and forties , even in wartime we never knew how we passed it on to friends in the village in North Yorkshire

By: Lois Bates

Lois Bates — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:01:44 +0000

As a girl, my father and I collected Saturday Evening Post covers and placed them in a scrapbook. Unfortunately, during my travels as an army wife, the scrapbook was lost, but the memories of those times with my father, and joy that the covers brought me linger on. I am so glad that I “found” the Saturday Evening Post again and look forward to receiving every issue.

By: Howard J. Fuller

Howard J. Fuller — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:26:11 +0000

I have printed this out and I am sending it tomy Lady in Asheville, No. Carolina. She is an artists. Unfortunately she is not into computers.
Kindest Regards
Howard J. uller

By: Charles Neumann

Charles Neumann — Wed, 11 May 2011 01:41:02 +0000

It is interesting, my wife said the same thing to me the other day, she thought all Post covers were by Rockwell. I explained that the Post was a weekly years ago when Rockwell did covers and there is no way he could have done them all. Many of the other cover artists were excellent in their own right, and did some great covers.

By: John Hamilton

John Hamilton — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:16:01 +0000

I just love the Rockwell, or should I say Crockwell, covers. I am 78 years old and I grew up with them.

By: Bob McGowan

Bob McGowan — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:45:26 +0000

A lot of people think Norman Rockwell did EVERY Post cover; not just the ones that have a strong resemblance. He did about 322 covers between 1916 and ’63. That only averages out to 7-8 per year for a magazine that came out 52 weeks per year. Granted, I’m sure some years in his heyday there were more covers than that in a single year, but to think he did ALL of them he would have to have done over 2,400. No doubt his style influenced other artists, and I’m sure the Post editors liked having the Rockwell-ish look and themed covers for consistency throughout the years. Most Post artists though, had their own look and style even if the theme itself kind of “conformed” to what Rockwell did, or could have done. It’s an understandable mistake in some cases. Others, not so much.