The Big Picture: Dick Sarget and Saturday Evening Post

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Dick Sarget and Saturday Evening Post

I always liked the Saturday Evening Post magazine when I was growing up. I especially liked the covers. Some of the magazines best covers were before my time and included paintings by Norman Rockwell. I have recently been looking at Saturday Evening Post covers by Dick Sargent, who had 47 or so paintings that were used as Saturday Evening Post covers in the 1940's and 1950's. Here are a few: