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The Saturday Evening Post published current event articles, editorials, human interest pieces, humor, illustrations, a letter column, poetry with contributions submitted by readers, single-panel gag cartoons, including Hazel by Ted Key, and stories by leading writers of the time. It was known for commissioning lavish illustrations and original ...
[6] [7] Fans of Salinger's work turned to his uncollected short fiction that had been published during the 1940s, preserved in old copies of popular literary magazines, primarily Collier's, Esquire and Saturday Evening Post. [8]
True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. [1] The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time a half century earlier when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney.
The list of six million Post subscribers was sold to Life for cash, a $2.5 million loan, and a contract with Curtis' circulation and printing services subsidiaries. Despite these attempts to revive the Saturday Evening Post, and failing to find a purchaser for the magazine, Curtis Publishing shut it down in 1969. [13]
Key objects in the collection include: The financial scandal of the 1720s, the South Sea bubble, with reports in the Weekly Journal or Saturday’s Post of how Parliament decided that if they left the country, the directors of the South Sea company "shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy and forfeit to the King all his Lands, Goods and Chattels whatsoever."
Falter painted close to 200 covers like this one for The Saturday Evening Post while he was alive. And illustration art is actually a pretty popular item these days - hence, the huge price tag for ...
Kimball's artwork exhibited unique qualities according to some reviewers of his paintings and drawings in the early 1900s. In a profile of him in the archives of The Saturday Evening Post, comments about those qualities in 1905 by art critic H. E. Bane are quoted: Even in magazine illustrations he goes deep beneath the mask of features.
Long before Calvin Klein and Abercrombie & Fitch, illustrator and commercial artist J.C. Leyendecker brought homoeroticism to Madison Avenue.