From flowering apples to shimmering aspens, The Saturday Evening Post‘s illustrators have painted some gorgeous trees for our covers.
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Spanish Moss Pickers
Mead Schaeffer
April 5, 1947
Louisiana
Artist Mead Schaeffer contributes another to our series of regional covers with a scene he sketched south of New Orleans, in the bayou country. Near Lafitte, Louisiana, he watched a harvest distinctive to the South. Moss pickers were hauling down boatloads of the beautiful Spanish moss that festoons trees in the South; the moss was dried and used in upholstering.

Sycamore Tree and Hunter
Andrew Wyeth
September 1, 2017

Shade Tree
Richard Sargent
April 12, 1958

Tossing the Football
John Falter
October 27, 1956

Cutting Down the Tree
John Clymer
December 17, 1955

Put the Tree There?
George Hughes
April 9, 1955

Sleeping Farmer
John Atherton
August 23, 1947

Jumping Rope Under the Apple Tree
John Clymer
April 25, 1953

Walk in the Forest
John Clymer
October 18, 1952

No Girls Allowed
Stevan Dohanos
August 9, 1952

Apple Blossom Time
John Clymer
May 6, 1950

Woman planting trees
Henry Hutt
May 28, 1904

Bears in Tree
Charles Bull
August 16, 1930