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The stamp features a portrait of Chief Standing Bear by Thomas Blackshear II based on a black-and-white photograph taken of Standing Bear in 1877 while he was in Washington, D.C., as part of a dele...

Roy Lichtenstein is honored with a stamp featuring his renowned work “Still Life with Crystal Bowl” (1972). The issuance took place on April 24, 2023, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. ...

Honor an icon of American culture with this new Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp. Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as the 107th Supreme Court Justice of the United States. The stamp shows Ginsburg in her black ...

Issued to honor renowned Black writer Ernest J. Gaines for the Black Heritage Series. The stamp design features an oil painting based on a 2001 photograph by Raoul Benavides. First Day of Issue Cer...

Commemorates Eugenie Clark, celebrating her influential contributions to marine biology, scuba diving, and shark research. Features a digital collage with photographs of Clark by David Doubilet and...

Shel Silverstein(September 25, 1930-May 10,1999) was one of America’s most well-known children’s authors. However, he did much more than that. He was also an accomplished illustrator, songwriter, a...

The pane of 20 stamps showcases five of Morrison’s abstract landscapes: The first row features Sun and River (1949), watercolor and crayon on paper. The work is part of the collection of the Plains...

This stamp from the U.S. Postal Service commemorates Nancy Reagan(1921-2016),wife of the 40th president, Ronald Reagan, and first lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.Her husband’s most tru...

Each of the five stamps features a musician dressed in traje de charro, the traditional outfit of mariachi performers, playing one of five iconic mariachi instruments: guitar, guitarron, vihuela, v...

Honor the unsung heroes behind some of the most important victories of the 20th century with this meaningful “Women Cryptologists of World War II” Forever Stamp.  The design features a lavender-ton...

The work Lewis produced during her prolific career evokes the complexity of her social identity. Known by an Ojibwe name that translated into English as Wildfire, she made and sold crafts for touri...

Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encom...