Many bookworms have found themselves on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Prospector
Norman Rockwell
July 13, 1929
Arizona
Rockwell portrayed many forms of transportation in his Saturday Evening Post covers. People traveled by car, train, boat, airplane, soapbox, and stilts, but there was only one way to observe the mountainous terrain of the West successfully – on the back of a mule. When Rockwell traveled through the West, he preferred to tickle his audience with human-sized details, rather than its awesome magnificence.
Lookout Point
Richard Sargent
July 18, 1953
Tennessee
Papa has been steering the bus for three days toward Point Lookout, and, having finally made it, is he not justified in decrying the little ones’ disinterest in lookouting? On the other hand, for three days the kids have been peering at interminable scenery; so now that the car has quit jiggling and reading is possible, what is more dutiful than rejoicing in the new hooks that papa bought them to read? Of course, modern readers may long for the days when children were glued to books and not phones.
Baby Sitter
Norman Rockwell
November 8, 1947
How to Diet
Norman Rockwell
January 3, 1953
Woman Reading in a Wicker Chair
Guernsey Moore
July 7, 1906
Boy Reading His Sister’s Diary
Norman Rockwell
March 21, 1942
Cramming
Norman Rockwell
June 13, 1931
Summer Reading
Bradshaw Crandell
September 4, 1926
Bookworm
Norman Rockwell
August 14, 1926
Summer Reading
W.H. Coffin
June 26, 1915
Girl in Braid with Books
W.H. Coffin
April 4, 1914
Woman on Beach with Book
Guernsey Moore
July 20, 1901
Heroes of Romance
W.H. Coffin
August 23, 1913
Woman Reading Book of Poetry
Harrison Fisher
August 5, 1911