Object Details
- Description
- On March 11, 2010, in Buffalo, New York, the Postal Service issued a 44-cent Abstract Expressionists souvenir sheet of ten stamps. Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland, designed the issue.
- In celebration of the abstract expressionist artists of the twentieth century, Ethel Kessler and Jonathan Fineberg (Gutgsell Professor Art His-tory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) selected ten paintings to feature on this colorful pane of self-adhesive stamps. Kessler used elements from Barnett Newman's 'Achilles' (1952) to frame the stamps. The arrangement of the stamps suggests paintings hanging on a gallery wall. For design purposes, the sizes of the stamp are not in relative proportion to the paintings. The pane also features selvage text and a quotation by Robert Motherwell. Each stamp includes the artist's name and verso text that identifies the painting and briefly tells something about the artist.
- Ashton Potter printed 30 million sheets using the offset process.
- Reference: Postal Bulletin (February 11, 2010)
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- March 11, 2010
- Object number
- 2010.2009.62
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4444c
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Art & Photography
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2010.2009.62
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm888e72b23-5b2f-4a96-8c50-8afce5293f67
