The Post Office may be contemplating cutting out Saturday mail, but they still deliver when it comes to developing a new stamp series. At the beginning of March, paintings from 10 Abstract Expressionists were issued as a group on a $4.40 First Class sheet – great opportunity to purchase art at an excellent price:)
“These bold artists used art to express complicated ideas and primitive emotions in simplified, abstract form,” said Linda Kingsley, USPS senior vice president, Strategy and Transition. “Although these stamps can’t compare in size to their real-life canvases, they bring the passion and spirit of abstract expressionism to an envelope near you. The Postal Service is proud to pay tribute to the legacy and unique perspectives of these revolutionary artists.”
The artists: Hans Hoffmann, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Joan Mitchell.
BTW: The name of the artist appears on the back of each stamp along with the name of the painting and date it was completed.
(Images: “Convergence”, 1952 Jackson Pollock, 2010 Abstract Expressionist stamp sheet)