From all of us at the John P. Falter Museum, wishing you all a safe, happy and blessed Thanksgiving!
We are certainly thankful for all of your continued support of Falter’s work, our museum and website.
Please be sure to check out the Falter-themed items currently on sale on our website. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll find some great holiday gift ideas including puzzles, prints, sets of greeting cards and a copy of our book, “America Through The Brush of John Philip Falter,” a coffee-table book containing all 129 Post covers illustrated by Falter. All of your purchases help keep Falter’s art alive and relevant today and we greatly appreciate your interest. You can visit our site by clicking here.
The featured Saturday Evening Post cover in today’s Newsletter is titled "Thanksgiving Flute Performance," and was originally published on November 30, 1946. The cover is displayed in the John P. Falter Museum, located in historic downtown Falls City, Nebraska, and was adopted by Cathy Falter-Dunn.
"Thanksgiving Flute Performance” — Saturday Evening Post, November 30, 1946.
"To begin with, the cover is by John Falter, and the setting is Atchison, Kansas. The man slumped in the red chair in the center of the room is John Falter's uncle, whose name also is John Falter. This is the home of a man named Bob Noll, and he is the only man who isn't here. The picture on the wall is from another house, and to leave you even further confused, the happy family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner is not a family. The people gathered here don't even know one another, and many of them never have been in the house where they are gathered. Falter thought these various friends of his looked like a family, and he painted them into a family. The woman clearing the table--in Atchison--is Falter's aunt. She was in New York at the time."