41c Charles W. Chesnutt single
Object Details
- Description
- On January 31, 2008, in Cleveland, Ohio, the Postal Service issued a 41-cent Charles W. Chesnutt commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty stamps. Howard E. Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, designed the stamp.
- With the thirty-first stamp in the Black Heritage series, the USPS honored Charles W. Chesnutt, a pioneering writer recognized as a major innovator and singular voice among turn-of-the-century literary realists who probed the color line in American life. Art director Howard Paine wanted a stamp that emphasized Chesnutt's intelligence and dignity. The portrait, painted by stamp artist Kazuhiko Sano of Mill Valley, California, is based on a 1908 photograph from the special collections of Fisk University's Franklin Library.
- Avery Dennison (AVR), Clinton, South Carolina, printed 125 million stamps, twenty per pane, in the gravure process.
- Reference:
- "Philately," Postal Bulletin (December 20, 2007).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- January 31, 2008
- Object number
- 2008.2021.15
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / photogravure
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4222
- Topic
- Literature
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Black Heritage
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2008.2021.15
