This article lists people whose artwork has been featured on stamps of the United States. For this purpose "featured" is not limited to complete works but includes any identifiable representation of their works. Thus the "Geophysical Year" stamp of 1958 is considered to feature the work of Michelangelo because it shows two hands from his The Creation of Adam . The "issue year" refers to the year when that person's work listed appeared on a stamp of the United States. Many artists have had the same work appear on different U.S. postages stamps and many artists have had multiple works appear on U.S. postage stamps.
The list does not include artists who were commissioned by the U.S. Post Office Department (or its successor, the United States Postal Service) to specifically create artwork for a postage stamp. Scenes from American history, famous Americans, and traditional Christmas images are postage stamp themes frequently employing original artwork.
The main references for the list are: National Postal Museum online database "Arago: Philately", [1] the Colnect Worldwide Stamp Catalog, [2] and the US Stamp Gallery. [3]
Scott Number | Issue Year | Series/Issues | Stamp | Artwork Title | Artist | Artwork Location |
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64 | 1861 | 1861 Issues | George Washington bust | Jean-Antoine Houdon | ||
68 | 1861 | 1861 Issues | George Washington portrait | Gilbert Stuart | ||
69 | 1861 | 1861 Issues | George Washington portrait | Gilbert Stuart | ||
119 | 1869 | Pictorial Issues | The Landing of Columbus | John Vanderlyn | ||
120 | 1869 | Pictorial Issues | The Declaration of Independence | John Trumbull | ||
147 | 1870 | Large Bank Note Issues | George Washington bust | Jean-Antoine Houdon | ||
148 | 1870 | Large Bank Note Issues | Abraham Lincoln bust | Thomas Dow Jones | ||
150 | 1870 | Large Bank Note Issues | Thomas Jefferson bust | Hiram Powers | ||
230 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues [4] | Columbus in Sight of Land | William Henry Powell | ||
231 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | The Landing of Columbus | John Vanderlyn | ||
232 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Unknown | Unknown | destroyed in the Spanish Civil War | |
233 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | The Ships of Columbus | Gustav Adolf Closs | ||
234 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella | Václav Brožík | ||
235 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Columbus door panel at the U.S. Capitol building | Randolph Rogers | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., United States | |
236 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | The Affectionate Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella | Francisco Jover y Casanova | Valladolid University, Valladolid, Spain | |
237 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Return of Columbus and Reception at Court | Luigi Gregori | University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States | |
238 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Unknown | Ricardo Baloca y Cancico | destroyed in the Spanish Civil War | |
239 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Columbus Before the Franciscans at La Rabida | Felipe Maso de Falp | ||
240 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | The Recall of Columbus | A. G. Heaton | ||
241 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Isabella Pledging Her Jewels | Antonio Muñoz Degrain | ||
242 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Columbus in Chains | Emmanuel Leutze | Germantown, Philadelphia, United States | |
243 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Columbus Before the Catholic Kings | Francisco Jover y Casanova | ||
244 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Isabella portrait | Bartolomé Bermejo | ||
244 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Christopher Columbus portrait | Lorenzo Lotto | ||
245 | 1893 | Columbian Exposition Issues | Christopher Columbus portrait | Olin L. Warner | ||
289 | 1898 | Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue | Troops Guarding Train | Frederic Remington | ||
291 | 1898 | Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue | The Gold Bug | Frederic Remington | ||
292 | 1898 | Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue | Western Cattle in Storm | John MacWhirter | ||
302 | 1903 | Second Bureau Issues | Andrew Jackson portrait | Thomas Sully | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
306 | 1902 | Martha Washington portrait | Gilbert Stuart | |||
328 | 1907 | Jamestown Exposition Issue | John Smith portrait | Crispijn van de Passe Van de Passe family | ||
330 | 1907 | Jamestown Exposition Issue | Pocahontas portrait | Simon van de Passe Van de Passe family | ||
331 | 1908 | Third Bureau Issues | Benjamin Franklin bust | Jacques Caffieri | ||
332 | 1908 | Third Bureau Issues | George Washington bust | Jean-Antoine Houdon | ||
367 | 1909 | Lincoln Centenary of Birth Issue | Abraham Lincoln statue | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | ||
551 | 1925 | Nathan Hale statue | Bela Pratt | |||
554 | 1923 | George Washington bust | Clark Mills | |||
556 | 1925 | Martha Washington portrait | Charles Francois Jalabert | |||
566 | 1922 | Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | |||
567 | 1923 | Golden Gate | William A. Coulter | |||
569 | 1923 | American Buffalo | Charles R. Knight | |||
618 | 1925 | Battle of Lexington | Henry Sandham | |||
619 | 1925 | The Minute Man | Daniel Chester French | |||
628 | 1926 | John Ericsson Memorial | James Earle Fraser | |||
629 | 1926 | Battle of White Plains | Edmund Franklin Ward | |||
651 | 1929 | Capture of Fort Sackville | Frederick Coffay Yohn | |||
680 | 1929 | Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument | Bruce Saville | |||
688 | 1930 | George Washington statue | Frank Vittor | |||
690 | 1931 | Casimir Pulaski portrait | Henry Bryan Hall | |||
704 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Charles Willson Peale | ||
705 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington bust | Jean-Antoine Houdon | ||
706 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Charles Willson Peale | ||
707 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Gilbert Stuart | ||
708 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Charles Willson Peale | ||
709 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Charles Peale Polk | ||
710 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Charles Willson Peale | ||
711 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | John Trumbull | ||
712 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | John Trumbull | ||
713 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin | ||
714 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | William Joseph Williams | ||
715 | 1932 | Washington Bicentennial Issue | George Washington portrait | Gilbert Stuart | ||
719 | 1932 | Discobolus | Myron | |||
720 | 1932 | George Washington portrait | Gilbert Stuart | |||
734 | 1933 | Tadeusz Kościuszko statue | Antoni Popiel | |||
737 | 1934 | Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | |||
798 | 1937 | Signing of the Constitution | Junius Brutus Stearns | |||
799 | 1937 | Kamehameha statue | Thomas Ridgeway Gould | |||
803 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | Benjamin Harrison bust | Adolph Alexander Weinman | ||
808 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | James Madison bust | Frederick William Sievers | ||
812 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | Andrew Jackson statue | Belle Kinney Scholz | ||
814 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | William Henry Harrison bust | Chester Beach | ||
815 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | John Tyler bust | Charles Keck | ||
821 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | Abraham Lincoln bust | Sarah Fisher Clampitt Ames | ||
823 | 1938 | Presidential Issue | Ulysses S. Grant statue | Franklin Simmons | ||
895 | 1940 | Pan American Union Issue | Primavera | Sandro Botticelli | Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy | |
898 | 1940 | 400th Anniversary of the Coronado Expedition Issue | Coronado and His Captains | Gerald R. Cassidy | ||
899 | 1940 | Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | |||
902 | 1940 | Emancipation Memorial | Thomas Ball | Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
904 | 1942 | Daniel Boone mural | Gilbert White | |||
949 | 1947 | Doctors Issue | The Doctor | Luke Fildes | Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom | |
973 | 1948 | Bucky O'Neill Monument | Solon Borglum | Courthouse Plaza, Prescott, Arizona, United States | ||
989 | 1950 | Statue of Freedom | Thomas Crawford | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
1001 | 1951 | 75th Anniversary of Colorado Statehood Issue | Bucking Bronco | Alexander Phimister Proctor | Denver, Colorado, United States | |
1011 | 1952 | Mount Rushmore National Memorial | Gutzon Borglum & Lincoln Borglum | Black Hills, Keystone, South Dakota, United States | ||
1020 | 1953 | Louisiana Purchase statue | Karl Bitter | |||
1035 | 1954 | Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | |||
1038 | 1954 | James Monroe portrait | Rembrandt Peale | James Monroe Law Office, Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States | ||
1041 | 1954 | Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | |||
1044A | 1961 | Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | |||
1060 | 1954 | The Sower | Emmanuel Leutze | Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States | ||
1064 | 1955 | American Bicentennial Issue | The Artist in His Museum | Charles Willson Peale | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | |
1073 | 1956 | Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky | Benjamin West | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
1082 | 1956 | Labor is Life | Lumen Martin Winter | AFL–CIO Headquarters Building, Washington, D.C. United States | ||
1105 | 1958 | James Monroe portrait | Gilbert Stuart | |||
1107 | 1958 | Geophysical Year Issue | The Creation of Adam | Michelangelo Buonarroti | ||
1113 | 1959 | Lincoln Sesquicentennial Issue | Abraham Lincoln portrait | George Peter Alexander Healy | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1114 | 1959 | Lincoln Sesquicentennial Issue | Abraham Lincoln bust | Gutzon Borglum | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1116 | 1959 | Lincoln Sesquicentennial Issue | Abraham Lincoln | Daniel Chester French | Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1176 | 1961 | Range Conservation Issue | The Trail Boss | Charles Marion Russell | ||
1187 | 1961 | The Smoke Signal | Frederic Remington | Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, United States | ||
1207 | 1962 | Winslow Homer Issue | Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) | Winslow Homer | ||
1241 | 1963 | Columbia Jays | John James Audubon | |||
1243 | 1964 | Charles M. Russell Issue | Jerked Down | Charles Marion Russell | ||
1244 | 1964 | Unisphere | Gilmore David Clarke | |||
1259 | 1964 | Fine Arts Issue | To the Fine Arts | Stuart Davis | ||
1273 | 1965 | The Copley Family | John Singleton Copley | |||
1321 | 1966 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child with Angels | Hans Memling | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1322 | 1966 | The Boating Party | Mary Cassatt | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
1335 | 1967 | The Biglin Brothers Racing | Thomas Eakins | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
1336 | 1967 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child with Angels | Hans Memling | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1363 | 1968 | Christmas Issue | The Annunciation | Jan van Eyck | ||
1364 | 1968 | American Indian Issue | Chief Joseph portrait | Cyrenius Hall | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1370 | 1969 | July Fourth | Grandma Moses | |||
1384 | 1969 | Christmas Issue | Winter Sunday in Norway, Maine | Unknown | Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, United States | |
1386 | 1969 | Old Models | William Harnett | |||
1390 | 1970 | The Age of Reptiles | Rudolph F. Zallinger | Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, United States | ||
1391 | 1970 | The Lighthouse at Two Lights | Edward Hopper | |||
1414 | 1970 | Christmas Issue | The Nativity | Lorenzo Lotto | ||
1426 | 1971 | Independence and the Opening of the West | Thomas Hart Benton | |||
1433 | 1971 | The Wake of the Ferry | John French Sloan | |||
1444 | 1971 | Christmas Issue | The Adoration of the Shepherds | Giorgione | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1470 | 1972 | American Folklore Issue | Tom Sawyer | Norman Rockwell | ||
1471 | 1972 | Christmas Issue | Mary, Queen of Heaven | Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
1475 | 1973 | Love | Robert Indiana | |||
1503 | 1973 | Lyndon B. Johnson portrait | Elizabeth Shoumatoff | |||
1507 | 1973 | Christmas Issue | The Small Cowper Madonna | Raphael | ||
1530 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | School of Athens | Raphael | ||
1531 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | Five Feminine Virtues | Hokusai | ||
1532 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | Old Scraps | John F. Peto | ||
1533 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | The Lovely Reader | Jean-Étienne Liotard | ||
1534 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | Lady Writing Letter | Gerard ter Borch | ||
1535 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | Inkwell & Quill | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin | ||
1536 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | Mrs. John Douglas | Thomas Gainsborough | ||
1537 | 1974 | Universal Postal Union Issue | Don Antonio Noriega | Francisco Goya | ||
1550 | 1974 | The Road, Winter | Currier and Ives | |||
1579 | 1975 | Madonna and Child | Domenico Ghirlandaio | |||
1629-1631 | 1976 | American Bicentennial Issue | The Spirit of '76 | Archibald Willard | ||
1686 | 1976 | American Bicentennial Issues | Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown | John Trumbull | ||
1687 | 1976 | American Bicentennial Issues | Declaration of Independence | John Trumbull | ||
1688 | 1976 | American Bicentennial Issues | Washington Crossing the Delaware | Eastman Johnson | ||
1689 | 1976 | American Bicentennial Issues | Washington Reviewing His Army at Valley Forge | William B. T. Trego | ||
1691-1694 | 1976 | American Bicentennial Issue | Declaration of Independence | John Trumbull | ||
1701 | 1976 | Christmas Issue | The Nativity | John Singleton Copley | ||
1704 | 1977 | American Bicentennial Issue | Washington at Princeton | Charles Willson Peale | ||
1722 | 1977 | American Bicentennial Issue | Herkimer at Oriskany | Frederick Coffay Yohn | ||
1728 | 1977 | American Bicentennial Issue | Surrender of General Burgoyne | John Trumbull | ||
1729 | 1977 | Christmas Issue | George Washington at Valley Forge | J. C. Leyendecker | ||
1732 | 1978 | James Cook portrait | Nathaniel Dance-Holland | |||
1768 | 1978 | Madonna and Child with Cherubim | Andrea della Robbia | |||
1799 | 1979 | Christmas Issue | The Rest on the Flight into Egypt | Gerard David | ||
1833 | 1980 | Education Issue | Homage to the Square: Glow | Josef Albers | ||
2026 | 1982 | Madonna of the Goldfinch | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | |||
2107 | 1984 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Filippo Lippi | ||
2165 | 1985 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Luca della Robbia | ||
2244 | 1986 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Pietro Perugino | ||
2367 | 1987 | Christmas Issue | A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna | Giovanni Battista Moroni | ||
2427 | 1989 | Christmas Issue | The Dream of St. Catherine of Alexandria | Ludovico Carracci | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
2513 | 1990 | Dwight D. Eisenhower portrait | James Anthony Wills | |||
2514 | 1990 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Antonello da Messina | ||
2578 | 1991 | Christmas Issue | Virgin and Child with Donor | Antoniazzo Romano | ||
2625 | 1992 | The Landing of Columbus | John Vanderlyn | |||
2710 | 1992 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child With Saints | Giovanni Bellini | ||
2789 | 1993 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child in a Landscape | Cima da Conegliano | ||
2871 | 1994 | Christmas Issue | Virgin and Child | Elisabetta Sirani | ||
3003 | 1995 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Giotto di Bondone | ||
3069 | 1996 | Red Poppy | Georgia O'Keeffe | Private Collection [5] | ||
3088 | 1996 | Young Corn | Grant Wood | |||
3107 | 1996 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child from Adoration of the Shepherds | Paolo de Matteis | ||
3176 | 1997 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome | Sano di Pietro | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
3182h | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | Stag at Sharkey's | George Bellows | ||
3182m | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | Gibson Girl | Charles Dana Gibson | ||
3183d | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 | Marcel Duchamp | ||
3183i | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | I Want You | James Montgomery Flagg | ||
3184c | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | Prohibition Enforced [6] | Ben Shahn | Museum of the City of New York, New York, United States | |
3184h | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | The Blues | John Held, Jr. | ||
3184n | 1998 | Celebrate the Century Issue | Automat | Edward Hopper | ||
3198 | 1998 | Alexander Calder Issue | Black Cascade, 13 Verticals | Alexander Calder | ||
3199 | 1998 | Alexander Calder Issue | Untitled | Alexander Calder | ||
3200 | 1998 | Alexander Calder Issue | Rearing Stallion | Alexander Calder | ||
3201 | 1998 | Alexander Calder Issue | Portrait of a Young Man | Alexander Calder | ||
3202 | 1998 | Alexander Calder Issue | Un effet du japonais | Alexander Calder | ||
3236a | 1998 | American Art Issue | Portrait of Richard Mather | John Foster | ||
3236b | 1998 | American Art Issue | Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary | Freake Limner | ||
3236c | 1998 | American Art Issue | Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog | Ammi Phillips | ||
3236d | 1998 | American Art Issue | Rubens Peale with a Geranium | Rembrandt Peale | ||
3236e | 1998 | American Art Issue | Long-billed Curlew, Numenis Longrostris | John James Audubon | ||
3236f | 1998 | American Art Issue | Boatmen on the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | ||
3236g | 1998 | American Art Issue | Kindred Spirits | Asher Brown Durand | ||
3236h | 1998 | American Art Issue | The Westwood Children | Joshua Johnson | ||
3236i | 1998 | American Art Issue | Music and Literature | William Harnett | ||
3236j | 1998 | American Art Issue | The Fog Warning | Winslow Homer | ||
3236k | 1998 | American Art Issue | White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas | George Catlin | ||
3236l | 1998 | American Art Issue | Cliffs of Green River | Thomas Moran | ||
3236m | 1998 | American Art Issue | The Last of the Buffalo | Albert Bierstadt | ||
3236n | 1998 | American Art Issue | Niagara | Frederic Edwin Church | ||
3236o | 1998 | American Art Issue | Breakfast in Bed | Mary Cassatt | The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, United States | |
3236p | 1998 | American Art Issue | Nighthawks | Edward Hopper | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States | |
3236q | 1998 | American Art Issue | American Gothic | Grant Wood | ||
3236r | 1998 | American Art Issue | Two Against the White | Charles Sheeler | ||
3236s | 1998 | American Art Issue | Mahoning | Franz Kline | ||
3236t | 1998 | American Art Issue | No. 12 | Mark Rothko | ||
3187h | 1999 | Celebrate the Century Issue | The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss | ||
3338 | 1999 | Frederick Olmsted Issue | Frederick Law Olmsted | John Singer Sargent | Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina, United States | |
3355 | 1999 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Bartolomeo Vivarini | ||
3662 | 2002 | Andy Warhol Issue | Self-Portrait 1964 | Andy Warhol | ||
3675 | 2002 | Christmas Issue | Madonna and Child | Jan Gossaert | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States | |
3804 | 2003 | American Treasures Series | Young Mother | Mary Cassatt | ||
3805 | 2003 | American Treasures Series | Children Playing on the Beach | Mary Cassatt | ||
3806 | 2003 | American Treasures Series | On a Balcony | Mary Cassatt | ||
3807 | 2003 | American Treasures Series | Child in a Straw Hat | Mary Cassatt | ||
3937a | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | Training for War | William H. Johnson | ||
3937d | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | America Cares/Little Rock Nine | George Hunt | Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site visitor center, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States | |
3937e | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | Walking | Charles Alston | ||
3937f | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | Freedom Riders | May Stevens | ||
3937g | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | Dixie Café | Jacob Lawrence | ||
3937h | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | March on Washington | Alma Thomas | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States | |
3937i | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | The Crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma | Bernice Sims | ||
3937j | 2005 | To Form a More Perfect Union | The Lamp | Romare Bearden | ||
4021 | 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Issue | The Declaration of Independence | John Trumbull | ||
4021 | 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Issue | Benjamin Franklin portrait | Joseph-Siffred Duplessis | ||
4022 | 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Issue | Benjamin Franklin portrait | Charles Elliott Mills | Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |
4023 | 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Issue | Benjamin Franklin portrait | Michael Dooling | ||
4024 | 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Issue | Benjamin Franklin portrait | Charles Willson Peale | ||
4024 | 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Issue | Benjamin Franklin portrait | David Martin | The White House Historical Association, Washington, D.C., United States | |
4346 | 2008 | American Treasures Series | Valley of the Yosemite | Albert Bierstadt | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |
4444a | 2010 | American Expressionists | The Golden Wall | Hans Hofmann | ||
4444b | 2010 | American Expressionists | Asheville | Willem de Kooning | ||
4444c | 2010 | American Expressionists | Orange and Yellow | Mark Rothko | ||
4444d | 2010 | American Expressionists | Convergence | Jackson Pollock | ||
4444e | 2010 | American Expressionists | The Liver is the Cock’s Comb | Arshile Gorky | ||
4444f | 2010 | American Expressionists | 1948-C | Clyfford Still | ||
4444g | 2010 | American Expressionists | Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 34 | Robert Motherwell | ||
4444h | 2010 | American Expressionists | La Grande Vallée | Joan Mitchell | ||
4444i | 2010 | American Expressionists | Romanesque Façade | Adolph Gottlieb | ||
4444j | 2010 | American Expressionists | Achilles | Barnett Newman | ||
4558 | 2011 | American Treasures Series | The Long Leg | Edward Hopper | The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, United States | |
4748a | 2013 | Modern Art in America | I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold | Charles Demuth | ||
4748b | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Sunset, Maine Coast | John Marin | ||
4748c | 2013 | Modern Art in America | House and Street | Stuart Davis | ||
4748d | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Painting Number 5 | Marsden Hartley | ||
4748e | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s II | Georgia O'Keeffe | Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
4748f | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Noire et Blanche | Man Ray | ||
4748g | 2013 | Modern Art in America | The Prodigal Son | Aaron Douglas | ||
4748h | 2013 | Modern Art in America | American Landscape | Charles Sheeler | ||
4748i | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Brooklyn Bridge | Joseph Stella | ||
4748j | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Razor | Gerald Murphy | ||
4748k | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 | Marcel Duchamp | ||
4748l | 2013 | Modern Art in America | Fog Horns | Arthur Dove | ||
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Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service, as a never-ending stream of new stamps was produced by countries that sought to advertise their distinctiveness through their stamps.
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