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Thomas Nast, American, 1840-1902, Santa Claus's Northstar's Evening Sleigh Ride, oil on mill board, signed lower right Th. Nast. and dated 1866. The painting is set in a moonlit winter's snowy landscape with a white bearded Santa and his reindeer following the North Star home as Christmas morning dawns. NOTE: "Thomas Nasts first major depiction of Santa Claus in Harpers Weekly (appearing in the postdated December 29, 1866 issue). Although other artists of the period sketched Santa Claus, Nast stands apart from the rest for his role in creating and popularizing the modern image of the Christmas figure" Robert C. Kennedy Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company and HarpWeek. Provenance: From the personal collection of Wynne Carson of Philadelphia and Old San Juan Puerto Rico through her mother, Marian S. Carson. The Library of Congress's Americana collection of Marian Sadtler Carson (1905-2004) spans the years 1656-1995 with the bulk of the material dating from 1700 to 1876. The collection includes more than 10,000 historical letters and manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and drawings, books and pamphlets, maps, and printed ephemera from the colonial era through the 1876 centennial of the United States.It is believed to be the most extensive existing private collection of early Americana. (FTHA9000) [TC]