Object Details
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1869 - 1959
- Description
- This Prominent Americans Issue stamp depicts Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect and interior designer. Wright designed “organic architecture,” or structures that were in harmony with its environment. One of his most well-known works is Fallingwater, built in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania over a waterfall. The stamp also features an image of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, one of Wright’s other well-known works.
- United States; Frank Lloyd Wright; architect; architecture; interior designer; writer; author; educator; nature; art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York City; spiral; portrait
- June 8, 1966
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5544
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (dark blue gray); adhesive; tagging / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1280
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Art & Photography
- Architecture
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5544
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8c322b5a0-53d8-4a9f-b333-75da7a17d8ff
