Comments on: Classic Covers: Love Hurts http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/02/10/art-entertainment/covers-courtship-perils.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covers-courtship-perils Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Bob McGowan http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/02/10/art-entertainment/covers-courtship-perils.html/comment-page-1#comment-218393 Bob McGowan Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:10:39 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=50274#comment-218393 Very nice selection of Valentine themed covers, even if most weren’t from February. I feel badly for the boy on the 1914 cover. I wonder what the girl was thinking.

This Country Gentleman cover was very much like a POST cover, except for the logo. I doubt if she mailed that Valentine’s card—-seriously doubt it.

I love Dick Sargent covers from this much later time period. This boy is a little confused and possiby sad as he wonders and ponders these Valentine cards. He might be overwhelmed with all the cards too. I love the detail in this cover. Rockwell cast a large shadow for the other POST artists to live up to, and I think Dick Sargent always did a wonderful job but with his own look and style.

(By the way to anyone enjoying this feature, this artist was NOT actor Dick Sargent, best known for having replaced Dick York on the ‘Bewitched’ TV series from 1969-1972. The name confusion is understandable, but it is just a coincidence.)

On the much older Country Gentleman cover, I can only wonder where the ICE CREAM wound up, because a fight did look like a fight coming on. On the ’22 POST cover, it also looks like a fight is brewing. Can’t we all just get along?

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