Classic Covers: Trains
We have some great articles on trains in the May/June issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. While you wait for your copy, we’d like to share some great train artwork from past Post covers.
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Tag Archives: covers
A Norman Rockwell Spring
Who better to greet springtime than Norman Rockwell? In Springtime, the artist’s fancy often turned to the whimsical. Dancing critters? Oh my!
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Classic Covers: A Leyendecker Easter
Happy Easter from The Saturday Evening Post! This gallery features Post illustrations by our most prolific cover artist, J.C. Leyendecker.
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Norman Rockwell’s April Fool’s Covers
Only a fool would fall for such illustrations. Check out our collection of tricky April Fool’s Day covers.
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Classic Covers: March Winds
The March winds blow! Artist John Falter went to a small town in the Midwest for this 1952 cover of big storm brewing.
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Norman Rockwell Goes to the Dogs
Is the skinny guy a dogcatcher or just some kind of nut? That’s what some locals thought of Rockwell scrounging around town looking for dogs for paintings. Since the Mar/Apr issue of The Saturday Evening Post honors Rockwell, we thought it was only right you knew the truth. Norman Rockwell went to the dogs.
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The Art of the Post
When it came to The Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lorimer had it covered.
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Classic Covers: Artistic License
The theme for the March/April issue of the Post is “Art in America,” and we have found that our Post cover artists loved painting…other artists! We found some fun paintings of paintings or painters painting. Are you with us so far?
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The Art of the Common Cold
Feeling under the weather? Well, sip your hot drink, pull the quilt more closely around you and enjoy some classic Saturday Evening Post covers showing folks (and a pup) in the same boat.
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Classic Covers: Thanksgiving Dinner
Preparing for Thanksgiving dinner was a Post cover artist’s dream, and we’re thankful for our impressive collection.
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Classic Covers: Trick or Treat!
Our covers through the decades have creeped us out with witches, goblins, and even a scary neighbor or two. They’re all in good fun, but you might want to keep the lights on as you observe the talents of some of our favorites.
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Classic Covers: A Kiss is Just a Kiss
Are you ready for the passionate kiss appearing on the cover in … are you ready … 1907? The beautiful painting by Frank X. Leyendecker (brother of renowned artist J.C. Leyendecker) shows a beautifully dressed couple at the piano, carried away by the music, one supposes.
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You Asked: What Would Rockwell Do?
One reader suggests that if Rockwell were alive and illustrating today, he would be painting covers depicting “the insane world of today with technology run amok …” Here’s what we think …
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Classic Covers: Autumn Art
You remember many of the great faces that have appeared on our covers throughout the years, but do you recall the wonderful scenic views? We’re here to remind you of how lovely autumn can be and to ask the burning question, “What the heck happened to summer, anyway?”
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The Art of Work
Past covers humorously and meticulously illustrate several views of Americans hard at work (or hardly working) in this month’s Illustrators Hall of Fame.
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