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  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2021!

    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 15 years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with another of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Equipped with a pickaxe and shiny lunchpail, our 1921 Leyendecker baby seems ready to get to work…

  • Beleaguered Leyendecker Santa

    Another wonderful Saturday Evening Post Santa Claus cover by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, who I think played a major role in forming our modern image of the Jolly One. Here, he is portrayed as not so jolly as he fends off the unwanted attention of the house’s stalwart defender, who apparently doesn’t recognize…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Leyendecker turkey SEP cover

    Thanksgiving cover for The Saturday Evening Post, November 26, 1927, J.C. Leyendecker Link is to the largest image of this painting I could find, which is on Pinterest. If that doesn’t work for you, try this one. Another wonderful holiday cover for The Saturday Evening Post by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. I love…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2020!

    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve Since 2006, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with another of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. See my 2006 post for background on the origin of the Leyendecker New Years baby covers for the Saturday Evening…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2019!

    As has become my tradition every December 31st for the last 13 years, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with some of J.C. Leyendecker’s wonderful Saturday Evening Post New Years covers. American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker set our modern conception of representing the new year as a baby, with the use of…

  • J.C. Leyendecker cover illustration for American Weekly

    Cover illustration for American Weekly, December 19, 1948; J.C. Leyendecker Link is to Heritage Auctions sold lots. Accessing the full high-res image requires a free account, but there is a somewhat smaller version on Tumblr here. At first I thought that this was Leyendecker’s take on the popular song, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”,…