United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997

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United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997

Postage Stamp
Title: Thornton Wilder
Scott Cat. Number: 3134
Subject: Wilder – Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975)
Designer and Art Director: Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia
Artist: Michael Deas, New Orleans, Louisiana
Typography: John Boyd, New York
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Media: Offset Lithography
Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., USA
Color: Black, cyan, magenta and yellow
Size: 1.56 x 0.991”
Country: United States
Postage Value: 32 cents
Issue Series: 14th in the Literary Arts Series
Issue Origin: 100th Anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth.
Issue Date: April 17, 1997
Issue Location: Hamden, Connecticut
Issue Size:

"The stamp features artist Michael Deas’s portrait of Wilder in the foreground, which is based on a photograph by Gisele Freund, a renowned photographer who is a former president of the Federation of French Art Photographers. The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from Our Town, one of Wilder’s most well-known works." United States Post Office Postal Bulletin, PB 21941, March 13, 1997, p. 32.

Artist, Michael Deas, was honored the second time by The Society of Illustrators for this design. They presented a gold medal to the USPS for this image and, the year before, for his portrayal of James Dean for that stamp.

Deas - Michael Deas

April 17, 1997