U.S. Postal Service honors Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art on new Forever Stamps

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Postal Service today recognized American pop icon artist Roy Lichtenstein with the dedication of new stamps in his honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

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The Forever stamps feature five of the artist’s bold, eye-catching creations and come in panes of 20. News of the stamps is being shared with the hashtag #RoyLichtensteinStamps.

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“Altogether, he created more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects that continue to be celebrated for their wit and invention,” said Thomas Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president of the Postal Service.

“The Postal Service uses its stamp program to raise awareness and celebrate the people who represent the very best of our nation,” said Marshall, who served as the stamps’ dedicating official. “Roy Lichtenstein certainly deserves this recognition because of the remarkable creativity and innovation he demonstrated throughout his career.”

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“I have always been a fan of the Post Office. I think it’s an amazing organization. It gets mail to everywhere, not just in this country, but around the world, said Dorothy Lichtenstein, the artist’s widow, and president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. “I think it’s an honor and more people will find out about Roy. I think he would have really loved it,” she said, referring to the new stamps.

Lichtenstein was born in New York City on Oct. 27, 1923.

As a child, he explored museums and at 13 years old, he started attending a watercolor class and then Parsons School of Design.

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Lichtenstein admired early 20th-century European masters such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Joan Miró.

Some of his early works, which depicted medieval imagery, fairy tales and historical scenes, reflected those artists styles.

Other participants at the ceremony were Jack Cowart, executive director of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Anne Helmreich, director of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, and Rachel Rossin, a contemporary artist.

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