2c Frank Lloyd Wright single

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Object Details

Printer

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Depicts

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1869 - 1959

Description

This Prominent Americans Issue stamp depicts Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect and interior designer. Wright designed “organic architecture,” or structures that were in harmony with its environment. One of his most well-known works is Fallingwater, built in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania over a waterfall. The stamp also features an image of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, one of Wright’s other well-known works.

United States; Frank Lloyd Wright; architect; architecture; interior designer; writer; author; educator; nature; art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York City; spiral; portrait

Date

June 8, 1966

Object number

1980.2493.5544

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (dark blue gray); adhesive; tagging / engraving

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Art & Photography

Architecture

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

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Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8c322b5a0-53d8-4a9f-b333-75da7a17d8ff

Record ID

npm_1980.2493.5544