Museum - John Philip Falter Museum in Falls City, Nebraska

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! The staff and volunteers of the John Philip Falter Museum would like to wish everyone a safe and fun Halloween! Mother Nature appears to be cooperating for most of the country, so whether you are casting your votes, trick-or-treating, or viewing tonight's rare "Blue Moon," enjoy your time with family and friends. Also, don't forget to set your clocks back! Thank you for your continued support. ... Today's special, holiday edition cover, "Trick or Treating in the Burbs," was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post on November 1, 1958 and was adopted by The Rotary Club of Falls City, in support of the John Philip Falter Museum, located in downtown Falls City, Nebraska. Please give this page a "LIKE" and visit our website www.johnphilipfaltermuseum.com

This week's The Saturday Evening Post cover featured by the John Philip Falter Museum, located in historic downtown Falls City, Nebraska, was originally published October 27, 1956. "Tossing the Football" Adopted by The Rotary Club of Falls City

This week's The Saturday Evening Post cover featured by the John Philip Falter Museum located in historic downtown Falls City, Nebraska, was originally published October 7, 1961. "Commuters In The Rain" Adopted by Bob & Jo Neman. ... "Nineteen moist commuters. See how they run. Scarcely a word of complaint about how the rain in suburbia seems to fall mainly when they detrain. Artist John Falter can afford to laugh at these rush-hour scurriers. Falter's studio is in his home and he painted the railroad station at nearby Gwynedd Valley, Pa., in his own good time, when the sun was shining."

Today's The Saturday Evening Post featured by the John Philip Falter Museum, located in downtown Falls City, Nebraska, was originally published September 15, 1962. "Convertibles Take Cover in Rain" Adopted by Sandra and Scott Volker.... Part of the fun of owning a sports car stems from coping with minor inconveniences such as having to put up your top in a sudden rainstorm. Artist John Falter approached this "fun" with feeling. Once he owned a sports car himself--a 1947 English Singer Drop-Head Coupe with Self-Canceling Trafficators. It wasn't waterproof.

Today's The Saturday Evening Post featured by the John Philip Falter Museum, located in historic downtown Falls City, Nebraska, was originally published September 27, 1947. "Apple Picking Time" Adopted by Leon & Madaline Wilhelm... John Falter's scene for the harvest time painting is his native Midwest; he sketched those barns and the rail fence near Weston, Missouri. The farm, long owned by the Blythe family, is one of the oldest in Northwestern Missouri. Falter completed the painting when he got back to his home in Pennsylvania, and the trees, the apple pickers and the farm woman are done from memory. It wasn't hard to recall similar scenes from his own boyhood, although as he worked, the phase of apple picking Falter recalled most vividly was fresh apple pie. In a burst of nostalgia, he asked to have it for dinner. He enjoyed every bite, and it wasn't until later that it occurred to him the pie he had eaten with such pleasure was cherry.

This week's The Saturday Evening Post featured by the John Philip Falter Museum, located in downtown Falls City, Nebraska, was originally published September 5, 1959. "Before, During, & After Picnic" Adopted by Jay & Joy Callahan... "Away they go, whooshing toward someplace where there's lots of green land and a far-arching abundance of sky. All hands are sparkle-eyed with vigor and vim, even mother, although she had to start doing chores at six a.m. to get this show on the road by eight. (Ignore Spoteye, the dog, who is just taking a cat nap). In due time the food is eradicated, the gang's vigor is renewed, the dog takes a dog nap, and mother applies her vim---to doing chores. And by and by in artist John Falter's purple night everybody passes out except you know who, there at the wheel--and for heaven's sake, look who has come to in the back seat! Mother doesn't reflect that a woman's work is never done; what she does think is, 'They're my babies, including old batter-out here beside me, and I love taking care of them all.'" #SaturdayEveningPost #americana #art #nebraska #arthistory #artmuseums #picnics #roadtrips #familytime #momlife

This week's The Saturday Evening Post featured by the John Philip Falter Museum, located in downtown Falls City, Nebraska, was originally published August 14, 1948. Adopted by Kevin & Janet Finck Malone. Artist John Falter's setting for his surf-bathing cover is Ogunquit, Maine. He made his first sketches while spending the summer in Maine, beating the heat, but didn't get around to painting until last winter. By that time the lucky lad was in Phoenix, Arizona, beating the co...ld. The hotter that Arizona sun got, the more fondly the artist thought of Maine's cool air and cool spray. So he hired a couple of pretty models for the girls in the lower right, and went to work on a picture of Maine as remembered in the Southwest. The pretty girl in the left foreground, just emerging and shaking out her hair, often appears in Falter's cover paintings, but doesn't get a model's pay for her work. She is Margaret Falter, John's wife. See more