JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951). A Real Happy New Year. Oil on canvas. 20 x 45 in.. Monogrammed lower...

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JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951)
A Real Happy New Year
Oil on canvas
20 x 45 in.
Monogrammed lower left

As Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler have noted in their magnificent art monograph, J. C. Leyendecker, Abrams, 2008, "While the Arrow Collar man was seminal in the business world, the New Year's Baby was perhaps J. C. Leyendecker's greatest contribution to global iconography. He envisioned the New Year's Baby ringing in the New Year for a December 1906 Saturday Evening Post cover. Throughout America, people anxiously awaited the Post's new Baby cover, and the magazine itself became as much a tradition as the mirrored ball dropping in Times Square. Globally, Leyendecker's New Year's Baby became as popular as Santa Claus. It is now embraced as a worldwide symbol for a new beginning and a fresh future."

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

More information about JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER. See also: Leyendecker, Joseph Christian, Joseph Christian Leyendecker Artist.



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