Thomas Nast’s illustrations of Santa shaped the Father Christmas we know today.

In your issue of May 21 you question Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine's assertion that Thomas Nast practically created our accepted pictorial embodiment of Santa Claus, and as Mr. Paine has since ...

The Development of the Contemporary Santa Claus Museum docent Brad Stone presented this festive look at how the contemporary image of Santa Claus was developed in the post Civil War era. Mr. Stone ...

Thomas Nast via Wikimedia Commons Take the 1881 image known as “Merry Old Santa Claus,” probably Nast’s most famous portrait of the Christmas deity.

Art The Artist Who Helped Create a Very American Santa Claus Abolitionist cartoonist Thomas Nast had a big role in manufacturing the US version of the Christmas patriarch. Jasmine Liu December 23 ...

(WVUE) - Cartoonist Thomas Nast, more than any other single individual, seems responsible for our modern day image of Santa Claus as a fat, bearded elf. Thomas Nast's iconic 1881 image of Santa ...

The history of Santa Claus goes back centuries. But a mixture of European influences with American literature and illustrations helped to create the modern Santa.

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum presents a rare summertime look at Thomas Nast’s most popular character, Santa Claus. Over 30 holiday images by Thomas Nast will be displayed in the large ...

By the 1860s, famous cartoonist Thomas Nast had turned Santa Claus into a fully human-sized character and given him a home at the North Pole. Read more of this story from our National Museum of ...

In early 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, cartoonist and illustrator Thomas Nast created a Christmas scene for the cover of Harper's Weekly. The cover showed Santa Claus arriving at a Union ...