artist Ralph Hulett was designing Christmas cards. The angular, modernist cartoony collection currently on view at the Hilbert Museum of California art dates mainly from the 1950s when Hulett was ...

Post-World War II American prosperity combined with the sprawl of the new suburbs contributed to Christmas holidays ... nostalgic tributes to the past. Cards depicted Santa Claus riding in a ...

1930s: Cards depicted social events such as the Depression and Prohibition. Mid ... century, holiday card sending has divided into two very broad categories: greeting cards that celebrate ...

Other sections are devoted to sparkly aluminum Christmas trees and silver tinsel. The next chapter “Gifts and Greetings” covers a broader spectrum, with sections on greeting cards and wrapping ...

People are always asking me: "How are the birth of baby Jesus and the U.S. Navy connected with mid-century graphic design ... made its debut as a greeting card." But some of the best graphic ...

It's hard to imagine now, but at the beginning of the 19th century Christmas was hardly ... Cole commissioned an artist to design a card for Christmas. The illustration showed a group of people ...

Sometime after Coca-Cola (but before Thomas Kinkade) decided what an American Christmas should look like, artist Ralph Hulett ...