{"id":7623,"date":"2015-05-28T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2015-05-28T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T16:57:33","slug":"art-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/art-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Famous Works of Art on Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7624\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-787x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Topical stamp collecting (1)\" width=\"584\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-768x999.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-1181x1536.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-1575x2048.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-100x130.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-150x195.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-200x260.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-300x390.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-450x585.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-600x780.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-900x1171.jpg 900w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Topical-stamp-collecting-1-scaled.jpg 1968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several renowned works of art will be on display in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Gallery at the John Hay Library\u2014on stamps. From now until July 31, 2015, you can see 18 pages of stamps that showcase the work of five artists: Peter Paul Rubens, Marc Chagall, Melozzo da Forli, Pietro Cavallini, and Charles M. Russell\u2014an artist of the American West.<\/p>\n<p>Using great works of art in stamp design began in the 1930s, increasing in popularity to its height in the 1950s, spurring a movement to collect art stamps within the world of philately. (Collecting stamps within a specific genre is known as <em>topical collecting<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Brown University Library is home to several stamp collections, including the Knight Collection, the Peltz and Morriss Collections of Special Delivery stamps, the George S. Champlin Memorial Stamp Collection of international issues, and the Robert T. Galkin Collection of First Day Covers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/guide\/08.html\">Click here for more information about Special Collections at Brown, including the stamp collections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>:\u00a0May 28 \u2013 July 31, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a010 a.m. to\u00a05 p.m., Monday through Friday<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Anne S.K. Brown Military Gallery, Third Floor, Room 303,\u00a0John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several renowned works of art will be on display in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Gallery at the John Hay Library\u2014on stamps. From now until July 31, 2015, you can see 18 pages of stamps that showcase the work of five artists: Peter Paul Rubens, Marc Chagall, Melozzo da Forli, Pietro Cavallini, and Charles <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/art-stamps\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | Famous Works of Art on Stamps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}