"cooperate on a planned ""Newsweek"" cover article about the author. Emerson was first approached by a number of dogs and then by Faulkner himself, who ""calmly told someone to get his shotgun"". In September 1963, the Curtis Publishing Company promoted Emerson from assistant managing editor to executive editor of ""The Saturday Evening Post"". A few months later, he reworked the magazine's issue covering the John F. Kennedy assassination to include recollections by his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower and by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., with a cover portrait of Kennedy by Norman Rockwell, all completed to publish the issue on time."
"Joseph Bowler Joseph Bowler (born 1928, Forest Hills, New York) is an artist and illustrator. Bowler was a regular illustrator for the likes of Cosmopolitan Magazine and Ladies' Home Journal in the ""Second Illustrative Golden Age"" after the Second World War. An apprentice of the Charles E. Cooper Art Studio in New York, Bowler was named The Artists' Guild of New York Artist of the Year in 1967. The award was a break for Bowler, who between 1968 and 1971 illustrated Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy for Ladies' Home Journal, and David Eisenhower and his wife Julie for The Saturday Evening Post."
"the Delaware Art Museum in 2009. Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (November 11, 1876 – August 1, 1936) was an American illustrator best known for the 40 covers she created for ""The Saturday Evening Post"" in the 1920s and 1930s under the guidance of ""Post"" editor-in-chief, George Horace Lorimer. She studied with Howard Pyle and later married Pyle’s brother Walter. Born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on November 11, 1876 to Newcomb Butler and Kate Ashton Thompson, Ellen began her artistic studies at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in 1895. In 1897, she"
"Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (November 11, 1876 – August 1, 1936) was an American illustrator best known for the 40 covers she created for ""The Saturday Evening Post"" in the 1920s and 1930s under the guidance of ""Post"" editor-in-chief, George Horace Lorimer. She studied with Howard Pyle and later married Pyle’s brother Walter. Born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on November 11, 1876 to Newcomb Butler and Kate Ashton Thompson, Ellen began her artistic studies at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in 1895. In 1897, she began to study under the famous"
"Saturday Evening Post"". He died on July 3, 1948 at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. As an artist of advertisements and magazine covers, Sheridan was not always free to sign his full name to his art work. As a result, many of his illustrations contain only stylized monograms to identify the artist. John Emmet Sheridan John Emmet Sheridan (June 14, 1877 - July 3, 1948) was an illustrator well known in his lifetime for his cover art for ""The Saturday Evening Post"", his illustrations for ""Collier's Weekly"" and ""Ladies' Home Journal"", and his commercial advertisements. He is ""credited"
"Henry Botkin Henry Botkin (1896-1983) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was a mid-century American Modernist who served as President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors from 1957 to 1961. He was an illustrator for ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""Harpers"", and ""The Century Magazine"". Botkin was a cousin and close friend to composers, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. After training at the Massachusetts College of Art, Botkin moved to New York City. He took classes in drawing and illustration at the Art Students League of New York and worked as an illustrator for Harper’s, The Saturday Evening Post"
"Henry Botkin Henry Botkin (1896-1983) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was a mid-century American Modernist who served as President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors from 1957 to 1961. He was an illustrator for ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""Harpers"", and ""The Century Magazine"". Botkin was a cousin and close friend to composers, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. After training at the Massachusetts College of Art, Botkin moved to New York City. He took classes in drawing and illustration at the Art Students League of New York and worked as an illustrator for Harper’s, The Saturday Evening Post"
"John Philip Falter John Philip Falter (February 28, 1910 – May 20, 1982), more commonly known as John Falter, was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for ""The Saturday Evening Post"". Born in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Falter moved at an early age with his family to Falls City in 1916, where his father, George H. Falter, established a clothing store. As a high school student, Falter created a comic strip, ""Down Thru the Ages"", which was published in the ""Falls City Journal"". J. N. ""Ding"" Darling, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of the ""Des Moines Register"", saw some of"
"which selected art to appear on United States postage stamps. He selected art for over 300 postage stamps during the administration of seven Presidents of the United States and nine Postmaster Generals. In 1984, the Postal Service's Hall of Stamps in Washington was dedicated in his honor. His easel paintings and prints have been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Dartmouth College. He was nationally known as an illustrator and magazine cover artist, particularly for his work appearing in ""The Saturday Evening Post"", for which he created"
"J. C. Leyendecker Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was a German-American illustrator. He is considered to be one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrations, the trade character known as The Arrow Collar Man, and his numerous covers for ""The Saturday Evening Post"". Between 1896 and 1950, Leyendecker painted more than 400 magazine covers. During the Golden Age of American Illustration, for ""The Saturday Evening Post"" alone, J. C. Leyendecker produced 322 covers, as well as many advertisement illustrations for its"
"Lincoln Sesquicentennial, and the 1960 Winter Olympics. In addition to his stamp design work, Metzl served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizens' Advisory Committee. In recognition of his contributions, he was one of the inaugural recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Award in 1960. He wrote ""The Poster: Its History and Its Art"", published by Watson-Guptill Publications shortly before his death. Metzl died in New York City on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Ervine Metzl Ervine Metzl (1899–1963) was an American graphic artist and illustrator best known for his posters and postage stamp designs. Ervine Metzl"
"for the December 1, 1962 issue. That final cover portrayed an accomplished bridge player awakened from a dream, still analyzing her bridge hand. Many of his ""Saturday Evening Post"" cover paintings can be viewed at the American Illustrators Hall of Fame in Indianapolis. His papers are at Syracuse University, and the Archives of American Art. He bequeathed funding for a scholarship in his name to Boston University, which also maintains a collection of his photographs and scrapbooks. The Boston University holdings include a painting of Alajálov by George Gershwin. Constantin Alajalov Constantin Alajálov (also Aladjalov) (18 November 1900 — 23"
"Irwin Caplan Irwin Caplan (May 24, 1919 – February 22, 2007), nicknamed Cap, was an American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist, best known as the creator of ""The Saturday Evening Post"" cartoon series, ""Famous Last Words"", which led to newspaper syndication of the feature in 1956. Caplan grew up in Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood where his parents took note of his drawings and enrolled him in art classes. As a teenager, Caplan won $10 in a citywide poster contest, and at Garfield High School, he illustrated the 1935 yearbook, ""The Arrow"". He painted murals of a circus and Paul Bunyan"
"taught drawing and illustration at the Art Student's League in New York City. Earl Mayan died in Huntington, Long Island, New York on December 12, 2009. Earl Mayan Earl Mayan (1916December 12, 2009) was an American illustrator whose early career spanned the era of pulp magazines to the post World War II years alongside Norman Rockwell at ""The Saturday Evening Post"". From 1954 to 1961, he painted ten ""Saturday Evening Post"" covers and illustrated many of stories that appeared as inside the magazine. Dr. Chris Mullen, creator of the website The Visual Telling of Stories, wrote of Mayan's art, ""He"
"was held up. Frances Tipton Hunter Frances Tipton Hunter (September 1, 1896 – March 3, 1957) was an illustrator who created covers for ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and many other magazines between the 1920s and 1950s. Her work is very similar in style to that of Norman Rockwell. Hunter was born in Howard, Pennsylvania, to Michael Howard, an insurance salesman, and Laura Tipton. After her mother’s death, Hunter and her older brother, Harold, moved in with her aunt and uncle Frances and Edward McEntire in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, when she was 5 or 6 years old. Her love of drawing and"
"John F. Kennedy Jr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as JFK Jr. or John John, was an American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher. He was a son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and a younger brother of former Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy. His father was assassinated three days before his third birthday. From his early childhood years at the White House, Kennedy was the subject of great media scrutiny, and he became a popular social figure in Manhattan. Trained as a lawyer, Kennedy worked as"
"illustration, and out of touch with the 20th century evolution of Post-Picasso modernism. He answers, ""We're charged, my father and I, with being a pack of illustrators. I've always taken it as a supreme compliment. What's wrong with illustration? There's this thing now that illustrations are sort of secondary to art and I think it's a bunch of crap."" According to the Brandywine River Museum, ""James Wyeth had earned national attention with a posthumous portrait of John F. Kennedy and other work. Later, he produced striking portraits of Rudolf Nureyev and Andy Warhol, studies for which are in the museum's"
"is included in the permanent collections of The Pentagon, the United States Air Force Academy, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and Syracuse University. Whitmore was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978. He received awards from the Art Directors Clubs of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Coby Whitmore Maxwell Coburn Whitmore (June 11, 1913 – October 12, 1988) was an American painter and magazine illustrator known for his ""Saturday Evening Post"" covers, and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other national brands. He additionally became known as a race-car"
"Frances Tipton Hunter Frances Tipton Hunter (September 1, 1896 – March 3, 1957) was an illustrator who created covers for ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and many other magazines between the 1920s and 1950s. Her work is very similar in style to that of Norman Rockwell. Hunter was born in Howard, Pennsylvania, to Michael Howard, an insurance salesman, and Laura Tipton. After her mother’s death, Hunter and her older brother, Harold, moved in with her aunt and uncle Frances and Edward McEntire in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, when she was 5 or 6 years old. Her love of drawing and art began when"
"Coby Whitmore Maxwell Coburn Whitmore (June 11, 1913 – October 12, 1988) was an American painter and magazine illustrator known for his ""Saturday Evening Post"" covers, and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other national brands. He additionally became known as a race-car designer. Whitmore was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978. Coby Whitmore was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Maxwell Coburn Whitmore Sr. and Charlotte Bosler. He graduated from Steele High School and attended the Dayton Art Institute. After moving to Chicago, Illinois, he apprenticed with Haddon"
"Mary Elizabeth Falter, donated several paintings, personal papers, and memorabilia from his studio to the Nebraska State Historical Society. The material reflects Falter's career from 1930 to 1982. Falter's daughter, author Suzanne Falter, maintains a web-based business coaching others to fulfill their creative dreams. His stepson, Jay Wiley, is a freelance photographer specializing in restaurant and hospital photography. His stepdaughters Lisa Waitneight and Sarah Johansen are homemakers. John Philip Falter John Philip Falter (February 28, 1910 – May 20, 1982), more commonly known as John Falter, was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for ""The Saturday"
"however. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Wentzel was one of a small number of photographers and reporters who realized that the president's body would arrive at the White House early in the morning of November 23. Wentzel photographed the arrival of Jacqueline Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at about 4:20 AM as they and a Marine honor guard escorted the president's coffin from the ambulance into the White House. In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Wentzel became an advocate for saving, preserving, and archiving National Geographic's photographic negatives, plates,"
"for magazines such as ""Adventure"", ""Argosy"", ""Redbook"", Street & Smith's ""Western Story Magazine"" and ""The Saturday Evening Post"". Robert C. Stanley Robert Carter Stanley, Jr. (March 28, 1918 – August 12, 1996) was an American artist famous for his works on paperback novel covers. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and died in Big Pine Key, Florida. As a realist artist, together with Gerald Gregg, he was one of the most two prolific paperback book cover artists employed by the Dell Publishing Company for whom Stanley worked from 1950 to 1959. Stanley also worked for other important paperback book publishers"
"F. Kennedy. Eventually, he was hired by Quinn and Johnson Advertising, in Boston, and he rose to the position of Creative Vice President. He married Anne, and lived in Still River. In 1965, he discovered he had Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He fought the disease for a decade. He wrote book reviews and poems for ""The New Yorker"", monthly columns for ""The Atlantic"", and was published in ""Harper's Magazine"". His papers are at Harvard University. L. E. Sissman Louis Edward Sissman (January 1, 1928 Detroit – March 10, 1976) was a poet and advertising executive. Sissman was raised in Detroit. He went"
"George Baker (Sad Sack). Henry Syverson Henry 'Hank' Syverson (5 October 1918 in Pine Bush, New York – 12 August 2007 in Pine Bush, New York) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, who contributed cartoons regularly to ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""This Week"" and many other periodicals. In World War II PFC Hank Syverson served with the US Army on Okinawa. Syverson attended the Walt Disney Animation Studios in the company of many animators destined for fame in magazine cartooning - there were Sam Cobean and Eldon Dedini. Some graduated to syndicated fame, such as Walt Kelly (Pogo), Hank Ketcham"
"John Emmet Sheridan John Emmet Sheridan (June 14, 1877 - July 3, 1948) was an illustrator well known in his lifetime for his cover art for ""The Saturday Evening Post"", his illustrations for ""Collier's Weekly"" and ""Ladies' Home Journal"", and his commercial advertisements. He is ""credited with the idea of using posters to advertise college sports."" Sheridan was a member of the Dutch Treat Club, and a frequent contributor to the program of their annual banquet and show, and was an instructor at New York's School of Visual Arts at the time of its founding. He was born on June"
"Henry Syverson Henry 'Hank' Syverson (5 October 1918 in Pine Bush, New York – 12 August 2007 in Pine Bush, New York) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, who contributed cartoons regularly to ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""This Week"" and many other periodicals. In World War II PFC Hank Syverson served with the US Army on Okinawa. Syverson attended the Walt Disney Animation Studios in the company of many animators destined for fame in magazine cartooning - there were Sam Cobean and Eldon Dedini. Some graduated to syndicated fame, such as Walt Kelly (Pogo), Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace) and"
"political imagery, such as his paintings based around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This body of work gained much acknowledgement when it opened at Paula Cooper Gallery in 2001. His work has traveled to galleries and museums across the world where he has exhibited in group and solo shows. Notably he has collections with the Guggenheim Museum and Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. Wayne Gonzales Wayne Gonzales (born 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a New York-based American painter whose work confronts the conversations between photography, history, and memory. Gonzales earned a Bachelor of Arts from the"
"left office. The first official portrait was painted by John Christen Johansen in 1941. However, Hoover later commissioned a second portrait which was completed in 1956 by Elmer Wesley Greene. At Hoover's request, this painting replaced the original, and currently stands as the official White House portrait. The Johansen painting now resides at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa. President John F. Kennedy's official portrait was painted posthumously by Aaron Shikler by request of Jacqueline Kennedy in 1970. It is generally analyzed as a character study. Unlike most presidential portraits, Kennedy's depicts the president as"
"In Pablo Larraín's ""Jackie"", Walton is played by Richard E. Grant. William Walton (painter) William Edwin Walton (1909/1910 – December 18, 1994) was an American journalist and abstract expressionist painter. He was a confidant of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, and chaired the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1971. Walton was born in 1909 or 1910 (sources vary) in Jacksonville, Illinois, to Joseph William and Helen Louise Weller Walton. He was the youngest of three children, and had two older sisters, Helen and Ruth. His father owned and published the ""Jacksonville Journal-Courier"", the local newspaper."
"the twentieth century. MacLellan is best known by virtue of his many illustrations featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. Between 1913 and 1936, MacLellan's work appeared on forty-four Saturday Evening Post covers, making him one of the most prolific Post cover illustrators of his day. MacLellan specialized in the female form, and nearly all of his cover illustrations feature a woman as the central, and often only, subject. During the early 1930s, Charles A. MacLellan feared that he would lose his eyesight and that he would be unable to continue working as an artist. Not surprisingly, he"
"his home in Washington, Virginia at the age of 59. The George Mason University Special Collections and Archives include approximately 60,000 of his photographs. Oliver F. Atkins Oliver F. ""Ollie"" Atkins (February 18, 1917 – January 24, 1977) was an American photographer who worked for the ""Saturday Evening Post"" and as personal photographer to President Richard Nixon. Atkins was born in 1917 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York. He moved to the University of Alabama to get his BA in Journalism, graduating in 1938. Taking a job at the ""Birmingham Post"", he quickly rose through the"
"Within hours of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Mint Director Eva Adams called Chief Engraver Gilroy Roberts, informing him that serious consideration was already being given to depicting Kennedy on one of the larger silver coins: either the silver dollar, half dollar, or quarter dollar. Adams called Roberts again on November 27 and authorized the project, stating that the late president's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy preferred that he be depicted on the half dollar, replacing the previous design of Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. Kennedy's reasoning was that she did not want to replace George Washington on the"