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2003 37c Mary Cassatt Paintings, block of 4 stamps
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U.S. #3807a
37¢ Mary Cassatt
Block of 4
Issue Date: August 7, 2003
City: Columbus, OH
Printed By: American Packaging Corporation for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10.75
Color: Multicolored
Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh. Her family valued travel and education, and Cassatt spent several years living in Europe as a child, visiting London, Paris, and Berlin, where she received some of her earliest lessons in art and music. Despite her family's reservations about her pursuing a career as an artist, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at age fifteen and later studied under painters Charles Joshua Chaplin and Thomas Couture in France. In 1868, the jury at the Paris Salon selected her painting for exhibition, making her one of the first two women ever to show work there.
Cassatt eventually settled permanently in France, where she became closely associated with the Impressionist movement and developed a distinctive style built on light, bright colors applied with quick, energetic brushstrokes. She often turned to the everyday lives of women and children as her subject matter, favoring candid, unposed moments over formal portraiture. This block brings together four of her most recognized paintings: "Young Mother," showing a mother holding her child in an intimate embrace; "Children Playing on the Beach," capturing two children absorbed in play at the water's edge; "On a Balcony," depicting a woman reading amid flowering plants; and "Child in a Straw Hat," a portrait of a young girl in quiet contemplation.
This block marked the third installment in the Postal Service's American Treasures series, which spotlighted American artists through reproductions of their most celebrated paintings. By the time of her death in France in 1926, Cassatt had become one of the preeminent artists working in both the United States and France, and this set brought her work to a new generation of collectors nearly eighty years later.
U.S. #3807a
37¢ Mary Cassatt
Block of 4
Issue Date: August 7, 2003
City: Columbus, OH
Printed By: American Packaging Corporation for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10.75
Color: Multicolored
Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh. Her family valued travel and education, and Cassatt spent several years living in Europe as a child, visiting London, Paris, and Berlin, where she received some of her earliest lessons in art and music. Despite her family's reservations about her pursuing a career as an artist, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at age fifteen and later studied under painters Charles Joshua Chaplin and Thomas Couture in France. In 1868, the jury at the Paris Salon selected her painting for exhibition, making her one of the first two women ever to show work there.
Cassatt eventually settled permanently in France, where she became closely associated with the Impressionist movement and developed a distinctive style built on light, bright colors applied with quick, energetic brushstrokes. She often turned to the everyday lives of women and children as her subject matter, favoring candid, unposed moments over formal portraiture. This block brings together four of her most recognized paintings: "Young Mother," showing a mother holding her child in an intimate embrace; "Children Playing on the Beach," capturing two children absorbed in play at the water's edge; "On a Balcony," depicting a woman reading amid flowering plants; and "Child in a Straw Hat," a portrait of a young girl in quiet contemplation.
This block marked the third installment in the Postal Service's American Treasures series, which spotlighted American artists through reproductions of their most celebrated paintings. By the time of her death in France in 1926, Cassatt had become one of the preeminent artists working in both the United States and France, and this set brought her work to a new generation of collectors nearly eighty years later.
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