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2001 34c American Illustrator: Neysa McMein
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U.S. #3502m
Neysa McMein
34¢ American Illustrators
Issue Date: February 1, 2001
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 125,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison Security Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine die cut 11.25
Color: Multicolored
Neysa McMein built one of the most recognizable illustration careers of the Jazz Age, working primarily in pastels to create cover art for magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, where she contributed nearly sixty covers between 1916 and 1939, and McCall's, where her pastel portraits appeared on every cover from 1923 to 1937. She sold her first magazine cover in 1915 after working as a sketcher for a pattern company, and her career grew quickly from there.
This stamp reproduces a June 1932 McCall's cover showing a self portrait of the artist holding her palette, work typical of the stylish young women she became known for depicting. McMein's reach extended well beyond magazine covers. General Mills commissioned her to paint the first portrait of Betty Crocker, the fictional spokeswoman created for the company in the 1930s, and as photography began replacing illustration on magazine covers later in her career, McMein shifted her focus toward formal portrait painting, completing commissions of presidents, writers, and entertainers of the era.
McMein moved within a prominent New York literary and artistic circle known as the Algonquin Round Table, and she was also active in the women's suffrage movement during the 1910s. This stamp belongs to a sheet of twenty honoring American illustrators whose work shaped magazines, posters, books, and advertisements throughout the 20th century, part of the Classic Collection series the Postal Service had produced since the mid 1990s.
U.S. #3502m
Neysa McMein
34¢ American Illustrators
Issue Date: February 1, 2001
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 125,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison Security Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine die cut 11.25
Color: Multicolored
Neysa McMein built one of the most recognizable illustration careers of the Jazz Age, working primarily in pastels to create cover art for magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, where she contributed nearly sixty covers between 1916 and 1939, and McCall's, where her pastel portraits appeared on every cover from 1923 to 1937. She sold her first magazine cover in 1915 after working as a sketcher for a pattern company, and her career grew quickly from there.
This stamp reproduces a June 1932 McCall's cover showing a self portrait of the artist holding her palette, work typical of the stylish young women she became known for depicting. McMein's reach extended well beyond magazine covers. General Mills commissioned her to paint the first portrait of Betty Crocker, the fictional spokeswoman created for the company in the 1930s, and as photography began replacing illustration on magazine covers later in her career, McMein shifted her focus toward formal portrait painting, completing commissions of presidents, writers, and entertainers of the era.
McMein moved within a prominent New York literary and artistic circle known as the Algonquin Round Table, and she was also active in the women's suffrage movement during the 1910s. This stamp belongs to a sheet of twenty honoring American illustrators whose work shaped magazines, posters, books, and advertisements throughout the 20th century, part of the Classic Collection series the Postal Service had produced since the mid 1990s.
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