Whether enjoying fishing for sport or making a living, these fanciful covers celebrate a favorite past time around the world.
May/June 2023
Charles Pabst
May 1, 2023
Pier Fishing
John Falter
August 13, 1949
California
On the long fishing pier at Santa Monica, California, tourists from all over the United States stand packed together like sardines while they try to catch fish. Many of the fishermen go through their routine calmly and expertly; occasionally a greenhorn flies into a tizzy, yelps for the landing net and hauls in a dwarf flounder or something else depressing. Artist John Falter was non-committal about whether he caught anything—besides a Post cover.
Fishing on Mountain Lake
John Clymer
July 16, 1955
Idaho
In America’s Western skylands are many jewel lakes, set in the gold and silver of clasping peaks. This looks to be in the vicinity of Sawtooth National Forest, but which mountain lake is anybody’s guess.
Ice Fishing Camp
Stevan Dohanos
January 12, 1957
Michigan
These shacks, which sit over fishing holes on the ice, are as cozy as living rooms, though less roomy, and they smell deliciously of coffee with occasional whiffs of kerosene.
Fly-Fishing from Canoe
Grace Gebbie Wiederseim
May 1, 1909
Two Men Fishing from Canoe
Oliver Kemp
May 30, 1908
An Angler Nets His Catch
Oliver Kemp
June 22, 1907
Children with Basket and Fishing Pole
J.C. Leyendecker
April 6, 1907
Dad, the Fish are Biting
Amos Sewell
August 25, 1962
Bridge Fishing
Thornton Utz
August 8, 1959
Fishing Tackle for the Discriminating Gent
George Hughes
April 26, 1958
Fishing Under the Golden Gate
John Falter
November 16, 1957
Fathers Off Fishing
Thornton Utz
June 18, 1960
Fishing With Nets
Mead Schaeffer
May 28, 1949
Salmon Fishing
John Atherton
July 17, 1948
Big Pole Little Fish
Richard Sargent
September 1, 1956
Rocky Mountain Fly Fishing
John Clymer
May 5, 1956
Catfish
John Falter
May 28, 1955
School of Fish Among Lines
Thornton Utz
August 7, 1954
Canoe Fishing Trip
Mead Schaeffer
July 12, 1947
Deep Sea Fishing in Rain
Constantin Alajalov
August 31, 1946
[From the editors of the August 31, 1946 issue] The man who has determined to go fishing, Constantin Alajalov observed when he was in Florida, will go fishing until he catches a fish, in spite of bad weather. Alajalov determined to paint this truth. There were a few things on which he needed to refresh his recollection, but to do this, he needed only to go out in a boat on a similar day. We don’t know how long the average determined fisherman has to wait for a sunny day. We do know how long Alajalov had to wait to catch a rainy one. One fair day followed another. He waited three weeks.
Fishing Still Life
John Atherton
June 29, 1946
The Fish Are Jumping
Mead Schaeffer
May 19, 1951
Fishing Season
M. Coburn Whitmore
June 3, 1950
Tying Flies
Stevan Dohanos
March 4, 1950
Fishing Still Life
John Atherton
April 15, 1944
Deep Sea Fisherman
Edgar Franklin Wittmack
February 2, 1935
An Old Man Fishing in Stream
Edward Penfield
September 24, 1904
Tying on a Fly
J.F. Kernan
May 25, 1929
Raft Fishing
Eugene Iverd
July 30, 1927
Gone Fishing
Norman Rockwell
July 19, 1930
Going Fishing
J.F. Kernan
May 3, 1930
Fisherman & Boys
Frederic Stanley
September 6, 1924
Woman Unhooking Fish from Line
Clarence F. Underwood
September 23, 1911
Fisherwoman
Clarence F. Underwood
June 26, 1920
Country Boy and the Fish
Robert Robinson
May 28, 1910