Classic Covers: 1950s Moms
Our best ’50s cover artists capture moms’ challenges. Is motherhood that much different today?
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Classic Covers: A Hint of Spring
We are over it! We’re through with snow and slush, and we’re seeking hints of spring from our finest cover artists: Rockwell, Leyendecker, Dohanos, Falter, Clymer and more.
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Classic Covers: The American Teenager
Five decades of adolescence depicted by Rockwell, Dohanos, Falter, and other great Post illustrators.
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Classic Covers: Childhood in the 1950s
Remember black-and-white Westerns and sandlot baseball? Our classic covers show what being a youngster was like in postwar America.
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Classic Covers: Autumn’s Beauty
The Post’s great cover artists had a knack for placing the viewer right in the painting, whether riding horseback through golden forests or picking apples in a lush orchard.
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Classic Covers: At Home in the ’50s
Remember clotheslines, black and white television, and only one bathroom? We do!
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Classic Covers: Firefighters
As long as there has been fire, there have been firefighters. We salute them with classic covers from artists like Rockwell, Dohanos, and Falter.
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Classic Covers: Election
It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows. Perhaps it does, but over the years, it has also made for great Post covers!
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Classic Covers: John Falter’s August
A golf course, a country auction, a stunning sunset. The moods of August as portrayed by a beloved Post artist.
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Remembering Artist John Falter
Thanks to one of our readers, I learned some interesting things about this 1946 cover by John Falter.
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Classic Covers: A 1940s Summer
Summer in the 1940s was much like summer seventy years later—only with great Saturday Evening Post covers.
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Classic Covers: Pull Up a Chair
As a prop or a story device, of humble wood or elaborately patterned, artists have furnished their paintings with interesting chairs.
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Classic Covers: Thanks, Dad!
Father’s Day might be a good time to remember: You weren’t always an easy kid to deal with.
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Classic Covers: The Situation Bears Watching
Pop psychologists these days talk about key changes in life; an “aha moment”. Post cover artists, however, are fond of “uh oh” moments.
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Classic Covers: The Art of Golfing
A reader wanted a reprint of 1925 Post cover “Miserable Golfer”, when led me to a treasure trove of golfing covers.
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Classic Covers: Music Critics
Even the bust of Beethoven is cringing. And he was deaf! Favorite Post covers show us that music is in the ear of the beholder.
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Classic Covers: Snow Days
It isn’t just rough this winter! From dodging a snowy ambush to shoveling sidewalks, the white stuff is a challenge as seen The Saturday Evening Post covers as far back at 1912.
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