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Four centuries of American Art
The Postal Service has issued in 1998 a palette of artistic issues.
They include a pane of 20 commemoratives reproducing the best of
American art from colonial times to the present century. The twenty
American paintings are featured on the pane of 32-cent stamps. The
Postal Service has named them "American Masterpieces" and also
"Four Centuries of American Art". The chosen masterpieces cover the
past 400 years, offering a wide range of styles and themes. The
following stamps were released:
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John Foster's Painting: "Portrait of Richard Mather"
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The Freake Limner's Painting: "Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby
Mary"
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Ammi Phillips' Painting: "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog"
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Rembrandt Peale's Painting: "Rubens Peale with a Geranium"
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John James Audubon's Painting: "Long-billed Curlew, Numenius
longrostris"
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George Caleb Bingham's Painting: "Boatmen on the Missouri"
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Asher B. Durand's Painting: "Kindred Spirits"
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Joshua Johnson's Painting: "The Westwood Children"
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William M. Harnett's Painting: "Music and Literature"
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Winslow Homer's Painting: "Fog Warning"
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George Catlin's Painting: "The White Cloud, Head Chief of the
Iowas"
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Thomas Moran's Painting: "Cliffs of Green River"
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Albert Bierstadt's Painting: "The Last of the Buffalo"
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Frederic Edwin Church's Painting: "Niagara"
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Mary Cassatt's Painting: "Breakfast in Bed"
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Edward Hopper's Painting: "Nighthawks"
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Grant Wood's Painting: "American Gothic"
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Charles Sheeler's Painting: "Two Against the White"
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Franz Kline's Painting: "Mahoning"
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Mark Rothko's Painting: "Number 22, 1949"
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