This week's The Saturday Evening Post cover featured by the John Philip Falter Museum in Falls City, NE.
"Waiting for The School Bus in the Snow"
The Rotary Club of Falls City
Fresh snow in the country is a scene John Falter always wanted to paint, for it seemed to him, as to John Ruskin, one of the few almost perfect sights. A snowdrift, Ruskin said, is of "inconceivable perfection and changefulness, it's surface and transparency alike exquisite, its light and shade of inexhaustible variety..."
Falter felt the same way, and so did we, when he brought the painting in. Just how Falter feels today, we don't know. As this is written, the roads around Falter's home in the country are deep in freezing slush, and the streets of Philadelphia are the same. A man can't see the "inconceivable perfection" of a snowdrift half as well when the snow gets down his shoes. At the moment, we think Ruskin can have it.
February 1, 1947