Hallmark Cards

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Hallmark’s all-time best selling Christmas card, “Three Little Angels,”
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Jacqueline Kennedy painted two Christmas card designs for Hallmark in 1963. The designs, including Glad Tidings (featured) and the Journey of the Magi, were to be sold as a benefit for the Kennedy Center.
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Between 1948 and 1957, Norman Rockwell created 32 Christmas card designs, including Christmas Surprise (1954), for Hallmark.
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Between 1948 and 1957, Norman Rockwell created 32 Christmas card designs, including Santa Looking at Two Sleeping Children (1952) for Hallmark.
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In 1959, Salvador Dali agreed to design ten Christmas cards for Hallmark. The following year, Madonna and Child and The Nativity, were sold in stores that carried Hallmark cards.
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Dali's surrealist take on Christmas proved a bit too avant-garde for the average card buyer, so the rest of the designs were soon pulled from store shelves.