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A tribute to man's best friend. (examples of Saturday Evening Post's cover art paintings that feature dog-people relationships)(Illustration)

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From: Saturday Evening Post
Date: 19950901
Author:Pettinga, Steven C.; Stoddard, Maynard Good

The poem "Young and Old" by Charles Kingsley features this stanza:

"When all the world is young, lad,

And all the trees are green;

And every goose a swan, lad,

And every lass a queen;

Then hey for boot and horse, lad,

And round the world away:

Young blood must have its course,

lad,

And every dog his day."

Over the years, America's foremost illustrators have given man's best friends their day via Post covers. In reviving the best of these, it becomes appropriate to add comments on the dog from the great, the near-great, and (possibly) the little-known among ...

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