PAINTING A STORY
Our second issue of 2021, celebrating our 200th anniversary, is a salute to the Post’s iconic, storytelling covers. The greatness of The Saturday Evening Post is rooted in how accurately it reflected American life. In the fiction and articles it printed, in its editorials, even in the advertisements that swelled its pages — but most tellingly in its covers — the Post provided Americans with a weekly mirror in which to see themselves.
Best remembered of those covers is the work of the magazine’s most famous artist, Norman Rockwell. But Rockwell was not alone; in the great periodcover. A list of these illustrators includes such names as J.C. Leyendecker, Stevan Dohanos, Frances Tipton Hunter, Richard Sargent, John Falter, and many, many more.
