Artists of the 19th century depicted Santa Claus in a variety of ways. The European Santa Claus or St. Nicholas or Kris Kringle was often tall and thin, while American Clement Moore's version in his famous poem, "A Visit from St Nicholas," was a "right jolly old elf." In the Later part of the century the famous Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast brought the Jolly old man up to normal size. This pleasently plump Santa entered the 20th century with a colorful wardrobe--Red, green, blue, yellow, everything but plaid. Then in 1931, a large American company and a hard=drinking Swedish artist combined to bring into focus the red-coated, white-fringed, black-booted Santa of today.
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