It’s time to sharpen those pencils and buy crisp, new notebooks: it’s time for kids to go back to school! Here are some back to school covers from across the decades.
Girl with Schoolbooks Walking in Rain with Umbrella
Sarah Stilwell-Weber
October 9, 1909
Amber Waves of Grain
John Falter
September 8, 1945
North Dakota
John Falter’s ” back-to-school ” cover shows a lad with a new haircut crossing the fields to a country schoolhouse. This is one that we’re not 100% sure is in North Dakota, but the scene landscape looks decidedly North Dakotan. If you’re from the state, let us know if you disagree.
School Supplies
R. Howe
September 1, 1973
First day of school
Thornton Utz
September 6, 1958
Artist Thornton Utz vows that when he was very little he liked school so much that he asked his folks if he couldn’t also go to night school. In time he got over that aberration.
School Pictures
Stevan Dohanos
June 15, 1946
School Orchestra
Amos Sewell
March 22, 1952
Dog Waiting for Schoolboy
Robert C. Kauffmann
September 10, 1938
School Bus
Stevan Dohanos
September 2, 1944
This is one time when the kids look happier than the dogs do about going to school.
Back to School
Robert C. Kauffmann
September 11, 1937
Robert C. Kauffmann painted five covers for the Post, on a variety of subjects from pets to water skiers. With their backs to the viewer, we can only guess what these two are feeling about the first day of school.
First Day of School or Back to School
Norman Rockwell
September 14, 1935
Back to School or Vacation’s End
Norman Rockwell
January 8, 1927
Slow, School Ahead
George Brehm
September 5, 1925
First Day of School
J.C. Leyendecker
September 20, 1913