John Falter: Reflections of America: A Career That Included 129 Saturday Evening Post Covers Qualifies This Prolific Artist to Be Immortalized in the American Illustrators Hall of Fame

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"You won't be an artist until you've put a cover on The Saturday Evening Post," George H. Falter told his son, John, not realizing that challenge would become one of the most important moments in the youong man's life. By focusing his energies on this cherished goal, John Falter would succeed in painting more than 120 covers for the magazine that his father regarded as the ultimate publication in its field.

Today, it is with much pride that we celebrate John Falter and place his work in the Illustrators Hall of Fame, now housed in our SatEvePost headquarters in Indianapolis.

John Philip Falter, born in Plattsmouth, Nebraska in 1910, began sketching at the age of two, on a chalk board supplied by his mother. His first commission came from a local soda shop that paid the budding artist in chocolate milk shakes for a well-executed mural. Falter continued to draw, sketch and …