The Postal Service has announced plans for seven more stamp releases for this year.
The Postal Service has announced more of this year’s planned stamp releases.
Here’s what’s coming:
• Yogi Berra, which will salute one of the best and most celebrated baseball players of his era;
• Ursula K. Le Guin, a Literary Arts release honoring the science fiction and fantasy writer who died in 2018;
• Emilio Sanchez, which will feature four of the artist’s colorful architectural lithographs and paintings;
• Sun Science, 10 stamps with stunning images of the sun;
• Tap Dance, which will celebrate the uniquely American contribution to world dance; and
• Mallard, a stamped card that will feature an illustration of a mallard drake.
USPS announced the stamps Jan. 15. The designs are preliminary and subject to change.
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The stamp honoring Yogi Berra (1925-2015) — one of the best and most celebrated baseball players of his era, winning a record 10 World Series with the New York Yankees — will feature an original digital portrait of him dressed in his Yankees cap, pinstripes and catcher’s chest protector.
The 33rd stamp in the Literary Arts series will honor Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), who expanded the scope of literature through novels and short stories that increased critical and popular appreciation of science fiction and fantasy. The stamp will feature a portrait of Le Guin based on a 2006 photograph.
The art of Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) will be celebrated with four stamps featuring his colorful architectural lithographs and paintings: “Los Toldos” (1973), “Ty’s Place” (1976), “En el Souk” (1972) and Untitled (Ventanita entreabierta) (1981).
The Sun Science 20-stamp pane will highlight 10 stunning images of the sun in striking colors that don’t represent the actual colors of the sun as perceived by human eyesight. Instead, each image is colorized by NASA according to different wavelengths that reveal or highlight specific features of the sun’s activity.
Celebrating tap dancing as a uniquely American contribution to world dance, the five Tap Dance stamps will each feature a photograph of a different tap dancer performing his or her craft against a brightly colored background.
The Mallard stamped card will feature an illustration of a mallard drake (Anas platyrhynchos) from preexisting artwork by famed illustrator and designer Dugald Stermer (1936-2011).
