Extension Magazine marks centenary with great cover art of past

Published: 2007-03-08

CHICAGO (CNS) -- For 100 years Extension Magazine, monthly publication of the Catholic Church Extension Society, has entered the homes of Catholics, many of whom sent in donations to help the church's home missions. For those old enough to remember, many of Extension's covers in the 1940s and '50s, painted by some of the leading artists in the heyday of magazine illustration, were celebrations of Catholic Americana done in a style reminiscent of the Norman Rockwell classics that graced the covers of The Saturday Evening Post. To mark its centenary year, the magazine is reproducing some of the best of those mid-century covers. Extension Magazine started reproducing the selected classic covers with its January 2006 issue and is continuing up to its April 2007 issue, when the centenary year ends.

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