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Haddon Hubert "Sunny" Sundblom (June 22, 1899 – March 1976) was a United States artist best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company.

Sundblom was born in Muskegon, Michigan to a Swedish language-speaking family. His father, Karl Wilhelm Sundblom, came from the farm Norrgårds in the village of Sonboda in Föglö of the Swedish-speaking Åland, then part of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, and his mother Karin Andersson was from Sweden.

Sundblom is best remembered for his advertising work, specifically the Santa Claus advertisements he painted for The Coca-Cola Company in the 1930s. Sundblom's Claus firmly established the larger-than-life, grandfatherly Claus as a key figure in Christmas imagery. So popular were Sundblom's images of Claus (Sundblom's images are used by Coca-Cola to this day) that the urban legend soon arose that Sundblom had actually created the modern image of Santa Claus.1 Sundblom also painted the iconic image of the Quaker Oats man in 1957; the image is still used in Quaker branding to this day.

In addition to his illustration work, Sundblom is recognized as a major influence on many well known pin-up artists, such as Gil Elvgren, Joyce Ballantyne, and Art Frahm. In the mid-1930s, he began to paint pin-ups and glamour pieces for calendars. Sundblom's last assignment, in 1972, was a cover painting for Playboy Christmas issue.

Footnotes

See "The Claus That Refreshes". Article from Snopes.com — Urban Legends Reference Pages.