2021 First-Class Forever Stamp,Emilio Sanchez: Los Toldos
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US #5594
2021 Los Toldos – Emilio Sanchez
- One of four stamps honoring Emilio Sanchez, the first Cuban American artist to have his work pictured on US postage stamps
- Issued on Sanchez’s 100th birth anniversary
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Emilio Sanchez
Value: 55¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: June 10, 2021
First Day City: Miami, Florida
Quantity Issued: 18,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the many works of Cuban-American abstract artist Emilio Sanchez.
About the stamp design: Pictures Emilio Sanchez’s piece “Los Toldos” (1973).
First Day City: The First Day of Issue was held at the LnS Gallery in Miami, Florida, a city famous for its high population of Cuban Americans.
About the Emilio Sanchez set: Includes four stamps, each picturing a different piece of art by Emilio Sanchez: “Los Toldos” (1973), “Ty’s Place” (1976), “En el Souk” (1972), and Untitled (Ventanita entreabierta) (1981). The stamps marked the first time a Cuban-American artist had his art pictured on a US postage stamp. They were issued to coincide with the artist’s 100th birth anniversary. The selvage of the sheet includes a photograph of Emilio Sanchez taken by Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte in June 1993.
History the stamp represents: Emilio Sanchez’s formative years in Camagűey, Cuba, provided the fundamental inspiration for his life’s work. Though he moved away in the 1950s, much of his art was directly inspired by the bold architecture that surrounded him as a child.
Sanchez was born to one of Cuba’s oldest and wealthiest families and was exposed to some of the country’s finest architecture. He was particularly drawn to the bold colors and shapes formed by light and shadows on the architectural details.
Early in his career, Sanchez painted bright tropical scenes and portraits inspired by his time in Cuba. Over the years, his work became slightly more abstract. Sanchez still painted recognizable objects, but he removed extraneous details, creating simplified, yet bold and graphic, scenes.
Sanchez went on to study art in America and moved to New York permanently in 1952. He made occasional trips back to Cuba throughout the 1950s. But after his family lost their home in the Cuban Revolution, his visits became more infrequent. He continued to paint Cuban architecture, and also applied the artistic principles he developed there to his architectural paintings of New York and the Caribbean.
US #5594
2021 Los Toldos – Emilio Sanchez
- One of four stamps honoring Emilio Sanchez, the first Cuban American artist to have his work pictured on US postage stamps
- Issued on Sanchez’s 100th birth anniversary
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Emilio Sanchez
Value: 55¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: June 10, 2021
First Day City: Miami, Florida
Quantity Issued: 18,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the many works of Cuban-American abstract artist Emilio Sanchez.
About the stamp design: Pictures Emilio Sanchez’s piece “Los Toldos” (1973).
First Day City: The First Day of Issue was held at the LnS Gallery in Miami, Florida, a city famous for its high population of Cuban Americans.
About the Emilio Sanchez set: Includes four stamps, each picturing a different piece of art by Emilio Sanchez: “Los Toldos” (1973), “Ty’s Place” (1976), “En el Souk” (1972), and Untitled (Ventanita entreabierta) (1981). The stamps marked the first time a Cuban-American artist had his art pictured on a US postage stamp. They were issued to coincide with the artist’s 100th birth anniversary. The selvage of the sheet includes a photograph of Emilio Sanchez taken by Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte in June 1993.
History the stamp represents: Emilio Sanchez’s formative years in Camagűey, Cuba, provided the fundamental inspiration for his life’s work. Though he moved away in the 1950s, much of his art was directly inspired by the bold architecture that surrounded him as a child.
Sanchez was born to one of Cuba’s oldest and wealthiest families and was exposed to some of the country’s finest architecture. He was particularly drawn to the bold colors and shapes formed by light and shadows on the architectural details.
Early in his career, Sanchez painted bright tropical scenes and portraits inspired by his time in Cuba. Over the years, his work became slightly more abstract. Sanchez still painted recognizable objects, but he removed extraneous details, creating simplified, yet bold and graphic, scenes.
Sanchez went on to study art in America and moved to New York permanently in 1952. He made occasional trips back to Cuba throughout the 1950s. But after his family lost their home in the Cuban Revolution, his visits became more infrequent. He continued to paint Cuban architecture, and also applied the artistic principles he developed there to his architectural paintings of New York and the Caribbean.