The Day After Christmas – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: The Day After Christmas, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Day After Christmas
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Norman Rockwell's painting *The Day After Christmas* reached readers as a color halftone reproduction in the December 1922 issue of *Farm and Fireside*, a family magazine aimed largely at rural households. Rockwell was in his late twenties and already a busy illustrator, and magazines like this one relied on him for holiday cover and story art. The halftone process, which broke a painting into tiny dots that printing presses could reproduce, let publishers bring original artwork into millions of homes at modest cost. The image shows how illustration carried the mood of the season into print.
| Created / published | c. 1922 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photomechanical print, halftone |
| Notes | Color half-tone repro. of painting by Normal Rockwell. Illus. in: Farm and Fireside, Dec. 1922 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,136 × 1,500 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176937 |
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