Masters of American Photography

The Masters of American Photography sheet recently came up when a client asked for one of the stamps for her Halloween cards. I’ll let you guess which one, as many have a varying degree of creepiness. However, it was a delight to review this sheet. I kept asking myself, why aren’t more people talking about it? There are truly some gems here. Many would look so elegant on correspondence envelopes.

I hope this post encourages you to re-examine stamps you’ve overlooked for a while. We are lucky to have such an abundant postal history with thousands of stamps to enjoy.

This sheet was issued by USPS in 2002 and features 20 different self-adhesive stamps. Text about each artist and their work is on the back of each stamp (scroll to bottom of post to see).