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Booth Museum 'Covers' America with 'The Saturday Evening Post' Exhibit

'Covering America: The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950's and early 1960's' debuts March 30 and runs through Sept. 29 at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville.

Booth Western Art Museum announced it's partnered with The Saturday Evening Post Society to showcase art from some of America’s foremost illustrators who contributed to the covers of the magazine in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.

Covering America: The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950’s and early 1960’s debuts March 30 and runs through Sept. 29, 2013, in the Special Exhibition Gallery.

Featuring 30 original paintings alongside The Saturday Evening Post covers they graced, the exhibit showcases a magazine that captured the heart and soul of America. The art of Norman Rockwell, John Clymer, Stevan Dohanos, John Falter, George Hughes, Amos Sewell, Richard Sargent, Mead Schaeffer and Thornton Utz embodies everyday life in post-World War II America—a time of tremendous growth and change. Returning veterans started families and moved them into newly developed suburbs. Expanding highway systems allowed cross country travel in automobiles that were now affordable. "Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance and activities with the nuclear family became a way of life. They were living the American Dream and it was captured on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post featured in this exhibit.

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Unique to the exhibit at Booth is the inclusion of several western paintings by W.H.D. Koerner and Harold von Schmidt that were featured inside the magazine. The museum will also exhibit 18 western-themed, original Saturday Evening Post covers from the permanent collection.

"This exhibition is a great opportunity to celebrate the art of illustration, which is responsible for creating so many iconic images we share in our collective memory as Americans," Executive Director Seth Hopkins said in a release.  "Several of the illustrators in the exhibition went on to become important Western artists who are now included in the Booth permanent collection, giving us the opportunity to study their earlier work."

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Museum members and guests are invited to view the exhibition, Covering America: The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950’s and early 1960’s on Saturday, March 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served in the Ballroom prior to a 7 p.m. lecture on The Saturday Evening Post exhibit with Joan SerVaas, president and publisher of The Saturday Evening Post, in the Booth Theatre.

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