{"id":7817,"date":"2015-09-11T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2015-09-11T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:34:31","slug":"stamp-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/stamp-comedians\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | US Comedians on Stamps and the Process of Creating a Stamp Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This stamp exhibit at the Anne S. K. Brown Military in the John Hay Library features\u00a0a set of U.S. stamps that were produced in 1991 called U.S. Comedians on Stamps<\/strong>. The idea for these stamps started in 1981 when Howard Paine, the coordinator for the Stamp Committee, proposed doing some adventurous things, like seeing some of the great caricaturists design stamps. In particular, he suggested having Al Hirschfeld<\/a> create caricatures of celebrities.<\/p>\n

Paine’s idea became a reality on August 29, 1991, when Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank dedicated a booklet of stamps featuring Hirschfeld caricatures of famous 20th century American comedians.\u00a0This stamp issue was the first of 25 issues depicting caricatures of show business personalities\u00a0created by Hirschfeld specifically as stamp art.\u00a0Four of the Hirschfeld stamps, shown above, are on display in the exhibit.<\/p>\n

(Fun fact: In 1945 Hirschfeld’s daughter Nina was born, and from that year on he always hid\u00a0the name Nina in his drawings.)<\/p>\n

The exhibit also depicts the process of creating a U.S. stamp by showing Hirschfeld’s drawing,\u00a0the overlay with the name and postage rate of the stamp that was\u00a0superimposed\u00a0over the drawing, and the final stamp itself.<\/p>\n

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

Click here for more information about Special Collections at Brown, including the stamp collections.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dates<\/strong>:\u00a0September 10 – October\u00a031, 2015
\nTime<\/strong>: Open to the public 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday
\nLocation<\/strong>: Anne S. K. Brown Military Gallery, John Hay\u00a0Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This stamp exhibit at the Anne S. K. Brown Military in the John Hay Library features\u00a0a set of U.S. stamps that were produced in 1991 called U.S. Comedians on Stamps. The idea for these stamps started in 1981 when Howard Paine, the coordinator for the Stamp Committee, proposed doing some adventurous things, like seeing some … Exhibit | US Comedians on Stamps and the Process of Creating a Stamp Design<\/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-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","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=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}