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

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 ...

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 ...

The first drawing of the Santa the world knows and loves came from Nast, a German-American cartoonist who illustrated a jolly suit-wearing and bearded Saint Nick in 1863 for Harper’s Weekly.

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 history of Santa Claus and his iconic red suit is a fascinating blend of folklore, religious tradition, marketing, and cultural evolution.

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 ...

At the time Nast signed his name to the copies he made of my sketches on the blocks, we were both working for The New York Illustrated News, of which Thomas Bailey Aldrich was the editor.

NPR's Ari Shapiro interviews historian Fiona Halloran about the origins of placing Santa in the North Pole. She says it all began with Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist in the 19th ...