U.S. #3502o
Harvey Dunn
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

Harvey Dunn grew up on a homestead near Manchester, South Dakota, in the same county that later inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder's prairie stories. An art instructor at South Dakota Agricultural College encouraged him to pursue formal training, which eventually led him to Wilmington, Delaware, to study under Howard Pyle, the era's leading American illustrator. Dunn became one of Pyle's most accomplished students, part of a group later known as the Brandywine School, and opened his own studio in 1906 after two years of study.

This stamp reproduces Dunn's painting "Something for Supper," one of many works drawing on his memories of prairie homestead life, a subject he returned to throughout his career even as his studio work took him far from South Dakota. In 1918, Dunn was selected as one of only eight official artist correspondents attached to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, where he built a reputation for working dangerously close to the front lines to capture combat as it happened, producing some of the most powerful American artwork to come out of the war.

After returning from Europe, Dunn settled in New Jersey, where he opened an art school that trained hundreds of students and shaped the next generation of American 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. #3502o
Harvey Dunn
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

Harvey Dunn grew up on a homestead near Manchester, South Dakota, in the same county that later inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder's prairie stories. An art instructor at South Dakota Agricultural College encouraged him to pursue formal training, which eventually led him to Wilmington, Delaware, to study under Howard Pyle, the era's leading American illustrator. Dunn became one of Pyle's most accomplished students, part of a group later known as the Brandywine School, and opened his own studio in 1906 after two years of study.

This stamp reproduces Dunn's painting "Something for Supper," one of many works drawing on his memories of prairie homestead life, a subject he returned to throughout his career even as his studio work took him far from South Dakota. In 1918, Dunn was selected as one of only eight official artist correspondents attached to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, where he built a reputation for working dangerously close to the front lines to capture combat as it happened, producing some of the most powerful American artwork to come out of the war.

After returning from Europe, Dunn settled in New Jersey, where he opened an art school that trained hundreds of students and shaped the next generation of American 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.