Object Details
Printer
Sennett Security Products
Description
The Postal Service issued a Four Centuries of American Art commemorative stamp on August 27, 1998, in Santa Clara, California. The pane features twenty American paintings under a separate header. An inscription on the back of each stamp describes the painting and artist.
The paintings include: "Portrait of Richard Mather" by John Foster; "Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Bay Mary" by The Freake Limner; "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog" by Ammi Phillips; "Rubens Peale with a Geranium" by Rembrandt Peal; "Long-billed Curlew, Numenius Longrostris" by John James Audubon; "Boatmen on the Missouri" by George Caleb Bingham; "Kindred Sprits" by Asher B. Durand; "The Westwood Children" by Joshua Johnson; "Music and Literature" by William Harnett; "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer; "White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas" by George Catlin; "Cliffs of Green River" by Thomas Moran; "The Last of the Buffalo" by Alfred Bierstadt; "Niagara" by Frederic Edwin Church; "Breakfast in Bed" by Mary Cassatt; "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper; "American Gothic" by Grant Wood; "Two Against the White" by Charles Sheeler; "Mahoning" by Franz Kline; and "No. 12" by Mark Rothko.
Designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, the stamps were printed by Sennett Security Products in the gravure process.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (July 30, 1998).
"Niagara" by Frederic Edwin Church
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
August 27, 1998
Object number
2000.2021.174
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink; adhesive
Dimensions
4 x 3 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Place
United States of America
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
Art & Photography
Ships & Waterways
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_2000.2021.174