Cover of the Day: December 1954

Leo Lionni, Art Director
Jerome Snyder, Illustrator

Cover of the Day: December 1932

Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
Ernest Hamlin Baker, Illustrator

Cover of the Day: December 1931

Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
Ernest Hamlin Baker, Illustrator

Cover of the Day: December 1946

Will Burtin, Art Director
Alvin Lustig, Illustrator

Cover of the Day: December 1944

Peter Piening, Art Director
Loren MacIver, Illustrator

Cover of the Day: January 1968

Walter Allner, Art Director
Romare Bearden, Illustrator

Original credit: For this special issue, Fortune commissioned Negro artist Romare Bearden, fifty-three, to convey his own mood of urban life. What Bearden pieced together is the striking collage on the cover. Bearden knows the neighborhood signposts well; he grew up in Harlem. He serves as art director of the Harlem Cultural Council, which seeks to encourage promising Negroes in the arts. For Bearden, the assignment was reminiscent of an earlier one. In 1942, he painted a picture to accompany a Fortune article on an all too familiar subject: the Negro and discrimination.

Cover of the Day: December 1936

Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
Erik Nitsche, Illustrator

Cover of the Day: December 1939

Francis Brennan, Art Director
Arthur Gerlach, Photographer