In celebration of cherubs. (Saturday Evening Post covers)

From: The Saturday Evening Post | Date: January 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Why a cover illustrator would choose a cherub to symbolize the new year comes easily to mind. Other than a "winged celestial being" and "one of the second order of angels," the dictionary also defines "cherub" as a "beautiful or innocent person, especially a child."

Thus the rosy outlook for the new year, as yet devoid of violence and untouched by mankind's heedless hand.

You may be surprised to learn that the use of cherubs and the young child to typify arrival of the new year gained national attention from a series of Post covers conceived by Joseph Christian Leyendecker, one ...

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