Somebody's going to get fired over this....

Does anyone here besides me have a print of this on the living room wall?

Good one, Repoz. I love the skinny legs Nieman slapped on Dave Parker in that one. Parker must have slipped Nieman a Benjamin to do him that way.

Someone should sue Curtis for turning the Saturday Evening Post into an bimonthly pharmaceutical ad anthology.

Does anyone here besides me have a print of this on the living room wall?

I have it in my office at home, along with The Dugout. I also have a print of The Rookie but I haven't gotten it framed yet.

If there are any Blue Jays fans who want to show their support for the team in an inconspicuous way, this print by Carl Brenders is great. It's framed and on one of my walls at home.

Uh. . . how about they just license it now, then? But if what they're showing is the magazine cover, not the painting itself, then . . .

What idiocy.

If there are any Blue Jays fans who want to show their support for the team in an inconspicuous way, this print by Carl Brenders is great. It's framed and on one of my walls at home.

That's awesome. Too bad red socks don't naturally occur in the wild.

The feds just settled with an artist in L.A. for $1 million for painting over his mural - damned if you show it, damned if you cover it up!

As someone who's spent many years acquiring licenses for making posters out of old college football program covers, I find it kind of ironic that a magazine which in its last years was such a spectacular money loser has been able to parlay a bunch of its old covers (for which it probably paid Rockwell a relatively modest flat fee) into a source of perpetual permanent income. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but in hindsight it does make me wonder why Rockwell---an artist with presumably quite a bit of leverage---wouldn't have demanded the retention of all reproduction rights, or a least a percentage of any future royalties.

Of course it's also highly likely that in 1948 nobody would have ever dreamed that there would be such a market for things like this. Although in my business I have to obtain licenses on three or four different levels in order to market my football posters over the net, the fact is that with a grand total of 3 exceptions* out of well over 100 schools, prior to the late 1970's none of the colleges ever once thought of copyrighting any of those programs, either the covers or the contents. The only reason that we've had to run the licensing gantlet has to do with the use of the school names, and nothing to do with any copyright issue per se.

A further irony is that many of these covers were drawn by some of the biggest name illustrators in history, who at the time probably received at most a flat rate of a few hundred dollars for their efforts, if that. None of those artists ever thought of holding onto the rights of those illustrations, either. At the time these now rather priceless artifacts were viewed as the purest of ephemera, one day phenomena whose fate was to be swept off the stadium floors by the thousands, and thrown into the campus incinerator once the game was over. Who knew?

*Harvard, Yale and Princeton, naturally

That's awesome. Too bad red socks don't naturally occur in the wild.

White socks do. As do Orioles and Tigers etc. Me, I'm an Athletics supporter, so framed on my wall is ...

He was an artist, not an illustrator!

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