But another of the most enduring parts of his legacy as an illustrator comes in the form of the figure who is most associated with Christmas: Santa Claus. Nast first drew him for the January 3 ...

By 1866, after the Civil War had ended, Nast had modified the image of Santa Claus into a jolly, heavy-set old man with a long, thick white beard. In the December 1866 edition of Harper’s Weekly, ...

Drawing upon Moore’s story, Thomas Nast, a well-known cartoonist in the mid-19th century, began to draw Santa Claus in a red suit with a long pipe and big grin during the Civil War.

The image of Santa Claus as a jolly, ... tender Santa was born. Like Nast, Sundblom continued to design images of Santa for Coca-Cola's marketing for 30 years. But after the 1960s, ...

Santa Claus in the 1910s and 1920s had largely come into focus as the jolly, bearded, ... famous cartoonist Thomas Nast had turned Santa Claus into a fully human-sized character and given him a home ...

Nast kept depicting Santa well throughout his political career, and in 1881, his most famous drawing of Santa, titled "Merry Old Santa Claus" went to print, and is the birth of the modern vision ...

On Jan. 3, 1863, Nast published his first illustration of Santa Claus for "Harper's Weekly." He went on to create 33 total Santa Claus illustrations in the next three years.

Before Nast and Moore, Santa Claus was often depicted as a tall, thin man, but people grew attached to Nast’s depiction, according to the Ohio State University library.

All this expeditionary activity, plus Clement Moore’s decision to have Santa Claus’ flying sleigh drawn by reindeer, an Arctic animal, certainly inspired artist Thomas Nast to place Santa Claus at the ...

Santa Claus and Thomas Nast. Share full article. ANTHONY LUMLEY. June 4, 1904; Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 4, 1904, Section BR, Page ...

Eventually, St. Nicholas morphed into the secular Santa Claus.Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years, ...