2023 Roy Lichtenstein Stamps

The U.S. Postal Service honors Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), the iconic American artist of the pop art movement. This genre,which arose in the late 1950s and reached its height in the 1960s, looked to popular culture for its aesthetic.

Each of the five stamps in the pane of 20 features one work of art by Lichtenstein: Standing Explosion (Red) (porcelain enamel onsteel, 1965); Modern Painting l (acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas, 1966); Still ife with Crystal Bowl (acrylic, ol, graphite pencilon canvas, 1972); Stll Life with Goldfish (acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas, 1972); and Portrait of a Woman (acrylic, oil,graphite pencil on canvas, 1979). in the left third of the pane is a photograph by Bob Adelman of Lichtenstein standing in front ofone of his dot-pattern paintings. His face is framed by a model of his 1983 sculpture Brushstrokes in Flight.