Coca Cola 1931 Santa Claus

Coca Cola 1931 Santa Claus. But in 1931 coca cola commissioned illustrator haddon sundblom to paint santa for christmas advertisements. Although many credit our modern day santa to thomas nast santa s jolly look all started in 1931 with haddon sundblom and coca cola.

It was he who drew santa claus in a red suit during the twenties when he painted for the coca cola company starting in 1931. Those paintings established santa as a warm happy character with human features including rosy cheeks a white beard twinkling eyes and laughter lines. The red and white santa figure existed long before coca cola began featuring him in print advertisements and he had already supplanted a bevy of competitors to become the standard representation.

Those paintings established santa as a warm happy character with human features including rosy cheeks a white beard twinkling eyes and laughter lines.

Although many credit our modern day santa to thomas nast santa s jolly look all started in 1931 with haddon sundblom and coca cola. It was he who drew santa claus in a red suit during the twenties when he painted for the coca cola company starting in 1931. The company wouldn t start advertising with santa until the 1930s. In 1930 artist fred mizen painted a department store santa in a crowd drinking a bottle of coke.