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2001 34c American Illustrator: Jon Whitcomb
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U.S. #3502n
Jon Whitcomb
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
Jon Whitcomb built his career on a style he perfected and stuck with for decades, close up romantic scenes of a handsome man and a glamorous young woman, a formula so closely tied to him that illustration historians still refer to his idealized female subjects as "Whitcomb girls." Born in Oklahoma and raised in Wisconsin, he got his start painting movie and vaudeville posters in Cleveland before moving to New York, where he cofounded the Cooper Studio and began placing work regularly in major magazines.
This stamp captures exactly the kind of scene Whitcomb specialized in, a service member embracing a woman in a tender moment, a theme that carried extra resonance given his own wartime service. During World War II, Whitcomb served as a Navy lieutenant and later as a combat artist covering the invasions of Tinian, Saipan, and Peleliu, work that stood in sharp contrast to the romantic illustrations that made him famous. After the war, he returned to magazine work and also wrote a long running Cosmopolitan column called "On Location with Jon Whitcomb," profiling Hollywood stars.
Whitcomb's illustrations appeared across decades in Cosmopolitan, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, and Ladies' Home Journal, and he later became one of the founding faculty members of the Famous Artists School, passing his technique on to a new generation of illustrators. 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. #3502n
Jon Whitcomb
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
Jon Whitcomb built his career on a style he perfected and stuck with for decades, close up romantic scenes of a handsome man and a glamorous young woman, a formula so closely tied to him that illustration historians still refer to his idealized female subjects as "Whitcomb girls." Born in Oklahoma and raised in Wisconsin, he got his start painting movie and vaudeville posters in Cleveland before moving to New York, where he cofounded the Cooper Studio and began placing work regularly in major magazines.
This stamp captures exactly the kind of scene Whitcomb specialized in, a service member embracing a woman in a tender moment, a theme that carried extra resonance given his own wartime service. During World War II, Whitcomb served as a Navy lieutenant and later as a combat artist covering the invasions of Tinian, Saipan, and Peleliu, work that stood in sharp contrast to the romantic illustrations that made him famous. After the war, he returned to magazine work and also wrote a long running Cosmopolitan column called "On Location with Jon Whitcomb," profiling Hollywood stars.
Whitcomb's illustrations appeared across decades in Cosmopolitan, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, and Ladies' Home Journal, and he later became one of the founding faculty members of the Famous Artists School, passing his technique on to a new generation of illustrators. 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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