Classic Covers: Mead Schaeffer
Intriguing tales lurk behind Mead Schaeffer’s covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
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Tag Archives: post covers
Gallery: Mass Transit Through the Years
This gallery of Post covers features our favorite mass transit illustrations.
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Classic Covers: Romance of the Cowboy
From Hollywood actors to the weather-hardened real thing, cowboys have graced their fair share of Saturday Evening Post covers.
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Overnight Sensation
Appearing on a Saturday Evening Post cover could be a springboard to fame, and this Post cover features an eventual movie star.
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Classic Covers: Alan Foster
When we came across this 1923 painting of these youngsters singing their hearts out, we had to learn more about artist, Alan Foster.
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Classic Covers: A June Wedding
So many elements go into the making of a wedding: the cake, the music–even the proposal that starts the ball rolling. Decades of Post covers share the work and the joy.
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This week’s Cover–50, 75, and 100 Years Ago
100 Years Ago: 75 Years Ago: 50 Years Ago:
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Classic Covers: Jack Murray’s Wilderness
Charles Lindbergh once said: “In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.” Artist Jack Murray captured this sense in several Saturday Evening Post animal covers.
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Rockwell: The War Years
We honor Memorial Day with Norman Rockwell art from both world wars.
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A Fond Farewell to an Iconic Policeman
Dick Clemens, the real police officer who was delighted when Rockwell asked him to pose for “The Runaway,” passed away this week.
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Escape Artist
Rockwell was a great talent spotter, but he couldn’t get one young painter to sit still for a portrait.
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Classic Covers: Richard Sargent
Watch a TV show from the 1950s and you view a life that is perfect. However, on Richard Sargent’s delightful Post covers, life had its moments…
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Classic Covers: Robert Robinson
The current Post magazine celebrates politics 100 years ago with this 1912 cover, which is but one of artist Robert Robinson’s covers depicting delightful “old geezers.”
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Classic Covers: The Grocery Store
Remember turning in pop bottles for change? How about having a few cents for candy and taking forever to decide? These Post covers remind us how much shopping has changed.
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Classic Art: Dog Wanted
This 1932 poem was just begging for our attention and some illustrations by Robert L. Dickey.
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Classic Covers: Baseball
It’s spring! Wouldn’t you rather be playing ball?
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From Our Archives: Thomas Kinkade’s American Dream
In honor of the “Painter of Light,” we’re revisiting this 2003 feature on Thomas Kinkade and his sources of inspiration.
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