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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Tag Archives: Stevan Dohanos
Classic Art: George Washington
In honor of Presidents Day, the Post celebrates George Washington, a favorite subject of artists like J.C Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, and Stevan Dohanos.
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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: The New Year’s Diet
Post artists have been poking fun at our perennial and well-intentioned efforts to lose weight since Teddy Roosevelt was in the White House.
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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: 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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Art: Till the Cows Come Home
A bevy of bovine beauties, from the humorous to the picturesque, appeared on our covers. Who knew cows were so popular with illustrators?
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Classic Art: Motorcycle Madness
We have motorcycle covers and old, old ads to show you, AND we found a bike we made famous in 1951 … practically in our backyard!
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Classic Covers: Stevan Dohanos
Rockwell is revered in Saturday Evening Post cover history, leaving some fabulous Post cover artists standing forgotten in his long, long shadow. For 1950s Americana, Stevan Dohanos was one of the best.
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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: The Art of the Haircut
Who knew getting a haircut was such an artistic endeavor? Well, our cover artists, of course.
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Classic Covers: New Year’s Resolutions
Decades of Saturday Evening Post covers show that we have always sought self improvement. Like this gentleman from 1924 taking up an exercise program.
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Classic Covers: O, Christmas Tree!
O Christmas Tree! O’ Christmas Tree! Much pleasure thou can’st give me – at least according to the old German carol. Post cover artists, however, show that sometimes the good old Christmas Tree gives us headaches.
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Classic Covers: Is It Global Warming – or Just July?
We don’t know about global warming, but we see here in July of 1910 it was hot! It is now July a hundred years later, and guess what? It’s still hot!
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Classic Covers: Rain, Rain, Go Away!
American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow perhaps said it best: “Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.” The rainy days on our covers show the dark and dreary, the frustrations along with the humor that accompanies a downpour. No fair weather friends, our cover artists!
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