44c Winslow Homer Stamps - Pack of 10

Ten 44c Winslow Homer Stamps
Issued: August 12, 2010
Scott Catalog #4473

10 Mint, unused postage stamps with original gum as issued by the Post Office. These stamps are genuine and valid to use as postage for current mailing. Be sure to use enough total postage to meet the current postal rate for the item you are mailing.

Great for special mailings like weddings, birthdays, valentines, and events. Also good to use for scrapbooking or displaying in a small picture frame. It's a miniature work of art.

About this stamp:
Winslow Homer, famous for his intense images of the sea, was one of the finest artists of the 19th century. Born in 1836 in Boston, Homer became a lithographer’s apprentice in 1854. At the age of 25, the magazine Harper’s Weekly sent Homer to cover the Civil War. The paintings he produced during this time launched his artistic career.

The ninth issuance in the American Treasures series features Boys in a Pasture, an 1874 oil-on-canvas painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is part of the Hayden Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

According to the Museum of Fine Arts, “the boys in this painting — companionable, idle, at peace — may be seen as emblems of America’s nostalgia for a simpler, more innocent time as well as of its hope for the future. Their faces are averted, a device Homer often used to make his figures less individual and, therefore, more universal.