If your PC opens the DCM file, but it's the wrong application, you'll need to change your Windows registry file association settings. In other words, Windows is associating DCM file extensions with the wrong software program.
In the beginning, Sundblom painted the image of Santa using a live model â his friend Lou Prentiss, a retired salesman. When Prentiss passed away, Sundblom used himself as a model, painting while looking into a mirror.
Santa's red robes and gift-giving habits were based on Saint Nicholas, but his chilly home base is the invention of Victorian cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose famous depiction of Santa Claus in a December 1866 issue of Harper's Weekly set the precedent for our modern image of the jolly old elf.