Cover Art
From the 1880s until the 1960s, the Journal of the American Medical Association displayed only a table of contents. On April 20, 1964, the JAMA cover featured a reproduction of Jan van Eyck's St. Jerome in His Study, a painting chosen to highlight the content of the issue, continuing medical education. Since then works of art, from the familiar to the newly appreciated, have adorned the covers of JAMA. In the 1970s, M. Therese Southgate, MD, became the guardian of this tradition. With its extensive collection of JAMA covers, the Backfiles provides a visual record of the journal's dedication to the science and art of medicine.
