01 Felix Topolski, FORTUNE September 1964

02 Eugene Mihaesco, THE NEW YORKER, March 1985

03 Charles E.Martin THE NEW YORKER, August 1980

04 John Falter, Saturday Evening Post, March 1955

05 John Falter, Saturday Evening Post, March 1960, with detail and text

06 John Falter, Saturday Evening Post, September 1961

07 John Falter, Saturday Evening Post, February 1948

08 John Falter, Saturday Evening Post, August 1946

09 John Falter, Saturday Evening Post, October 1961

 

I have tried to select a wide range of examples for comparison, while nevertheless paying tribute to John Falter's cover art, so poorly represented in books on Magazine Covers. The New Yorker has presented many poetic evocations of the City, but none more wonderful than those by Mihaesco and Martin.