The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year. It was first published in 1821, and published weekly from 1897 until 1963. It was published every other week until 1969. F
Cover of the issue from November 28, 1903, featuring Otto von Bismarck, illustrated by George Fort Gibbs
Cover of the issue from January 19, 1924
December 28, 1907. Cover by J. C. Leyendecker
April 16, 1910. Cover by Anton Otto Fischer
John Philip Falter was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for The Saturday Evening Post.
The Saturday Evening Post
…of a bygone era became icons. During his 50-year career with the Post, Rockwell painted more than 300 covers. The Post also employed Nebraska artist John Philip Falter, who became known as "a painter of Americana with an accent of the Middle West," who "brought out some of the homeliness and humor of Middle Western…
Falter in his Chestnut Hill studio, 1977
John Falter painted this recruiting poster in 1943.
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