John Philip Falter
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John Philip Falter was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for The Saturday Evening Post.
Falter used his friend, radio actor J. Scott Smart, as a model for "Gramercy Park," the cover of the March 25, 1944 issue of The Saturday Evening Post
John Falter painted this recruiting poster in 1943.
John Falter in his studio, photographed in 1978 by his stepson, Jay Wiley.
The Saturday Evening Post
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The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was published weekly from 1897 until 1963, and then every other week until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines among the American middle class, with fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and features that reached two million homes every week.
The November 28, 1903 cover featuring Otto von Bismarck, illustrated by George Fort Gibbs
Cover of the January 19, 1924, issue
December 28, 1907. Cover by J. C. Leyendecker
April 16, 1910. Cover by Anton Otto Fischer