2019 First-Class Forever Stamp,Ellsworth Kelly: "Orange Red Relief"
# 5388 - 2019 First-Class Forever Stamp - Ellsworth Kelly: "Orange Red Relief"
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US #5388
2019 Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) – Ellsworth Kelly
- Part of the 10-stamp set commemorating abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Ellsworth Kelly
Value: 55¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: May 31, 2019
First Day City: Spencertown, New York
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Phosphor, block tag
Why the stamp was issued: To honor Ellsworth Kelly, an abstract artist known for his paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.
About the stamp design: Picture’s Kelly’s piece Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) (1990).
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at Ellsworth Kelly Studio in Spencertown, New York.
About the Ellsworth Kelly set: Includes 10 different stamp designs, each picturing a piece of art created by Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015). The pieces shown are: Yellow White (1961), Colors for a Large Wall (1951), Blue Red Rocker (1963), Spectrum I (1953), South Ferry (1956), Blue Green (1962), Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) (1990), Meschers (1951), Red Blue (1964), and Gaza (1956). The selvage of the complete pane of 20 includes a segment of Blue Yellow Red III (1971).
History the stamp represents: Ellsworth Kelly was one of America’s leading artists during his lifetime. His works were popular in galleries and he was often hired to produce commissions for buildings around the world.
Kelly’s first commission came in 1956 when he was 33 years old. He was hired to produce the mural-sized Sculpture for a Large Wall for the Transportation Building in Philadelphia. A decade later, he produced Wright Curve, a steel sculpture for the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater. In 1969, Kelly was hired to paint a mural for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, where he’d found his voice as an artist 20 years earlier. In the years to come, he produced works for Chicago, Singapore, and Houston. In 1987, he made two large Totem sculptures for Barcelona, one reaching 50 feet tall.
By the 1990s, Kelly was in high demand. Among his commissions were a sculpture for the Nestle headquarters in Sweden, one for an art school in France, panels for the German parliament building, and a 28-foot-tall work for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. Most notably, his memorial for the US Holocaust Museum consists of a large white fan-shaped piece opposite three rectangular panels, representing a bird flying over closed windows. His ability to convey such moving imagery with simple shapes is what made his work so sought after around the globe.
US #5388
2019 Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) – Ellsworth Kelly
- Part of the 10-stamp set commemorating abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Ellsworth Kelly
Value: 55¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: May 31, 2019
First Day City: Spencertown, New York
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Phosphor, block tag
Why the stamp was issued: To honor Ellsworth Kelly, an abstract artist known for his paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.
About the stamp design: Picture’s Kelly’s piece Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) (1990).
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at Ellsworth Kelly Studio in Spencertown, New York.
About the Ellsworth Kelly set: Includes 10 different stamp designs, each picturing a piece of art created by Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015). The pieces shown are: Yellow White (1961), Colors for a Large Wall (1951), Blue Red Rocker (1963), Spectrum I (1953), South Ferry (1956), Blue Green (1962), Orange Red Relief (for Delphine Seyrig) (1990), Meschers (1951), Red Blue (1964), and Gaza (1956). The selvage of the complete pane of 20 includes a segment of Blue Yellow Red III (1971).
History the stamp represents: Ellsworth Kelly was one of America’s leading artists during his lifetime. His works were popular in galleries and he was often hired to produce commissions for buildings around the world.
Kelly’s first commission came in 1956 when he was 33 years old. He was hired to produce the mural-sized Sculpture for a Large Wall for the Transportation Building in Philadelphia. A decade later, he produced Wright Curve, a steel sculpture for the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater. In 1969, Kelly was hired to paint a mural for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, where he’d found his voice as an artist 20 years earlier. In the years to come, he produced works for Chicago, Singapore, and Houston. In 1987, he made two large Totem sculptures for Barcelona, one reaching 50 feet tall.
By the 1990s, Kelly was in high demand. Among his commissions were a sculpture for the Nestle headquarters in Sweden, one for an art school in France, panels for the German parliament building, and a 28-foot-tall work for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. Most notably, his memorial for the US Holocaust Museum consists of a large white fan-shaped piece opposite three rectangular panels, representing a bird flying over closed windows. His ability to convey such moving imagery with simple shapes is what made his work so sought after around the globe.