A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Man Who Loved Santa Claus Thomas Nast is the man who designed Santa Claus around 1881. Saint Nicholas had arrived in America with the Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam. But their Saint "Nick" was seen as a bishop, proud and tall, dressed in clerical robes and carrying a birch staff. Nast, in constrast, visualized Santa Claus as the character who had been discribed in his own Bavarian boyhood, a rosy cheeked, rotound figure of cheer in a fur suit. Depicting the chubby elf of his imagination came easily to Nast. Having emigrated to New York at the age of 6 in 1846, he was enrolled in art school by the time he was 13, and just two years later had already begun his career as a newspaper illustrator. Nast's assignments included many major stories of the day, and by December of 1863 he need a break. Designing the cover for the New Year's edition of Harper's Weekly, he drew a scene of a Union Army camp, but it forcused on a fanciful Santa Claus, clad in stars and stripes, handing out toys to bemused soldiers. Every Christmas for the next 23 years, Nast took a simular holiday from more serious subjects. In the process he not only gave form to the figure that Americans accept as the "real" Santa Claus, but also fixed Santa's activites in the minds of future generations. Toy-making in the North Pole workshop, the book in which Santa records children as naughty or nice, and the reindeer-drawn sleigh filled with toys were all memorably depicted by Nast. Even Santa's red suit is a Nast legacy. He decided that red would be more striking than any other hue when he illustrated one for the first colored children's books in 1866. Discovering America's Past Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
A good time is coming,
I'm counting each day
Then when the first snowflakes
Santa Claus has the right idea,
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