Four centuries of American Art

The Postal Service has issued in 1998 a palette of artistic issues. They include a pane of 20 commemoratives reproducing the best of American art from colonial times to the present century. The twenty American paintings are featured on the pane of 32-cent stamps. The Postal Service has named them "American Masterpieces" and also "Four Centuries of American Art". The chosen masterpieces cover the past 400 years, offering a wide range of styles and themes. The following stamps were released:

John Foster's Painting: "Portrait of Richard Mather"
The Freake Limner's Painting: "Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary"
Ammi Phillips' Painting: "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog"
Rembrandt Peale's Painting: "Rubens Peale with a Geranium"
John James Audubon's Painting: "Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longrostris"
George Caleb Bingham's Painting: "Boatmen on the Missouri"
Asher B. Durand's Painting: "Kindred Spirits"
Joshua Johnson's Painting: "The Westwood Children"
William M. Harnett's Painting: "Music and Literature"
Winslow Homer's Painting: "Fog Warning"
George Catlin's Painting: "The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas"
Thomas Moran's Painting: "Cliffs of Green River"
Albert Bierstadt's Painting: "The Last of the Buffalo"
Frederic Edwin Church's Painting: "Niagara"
Mary Cassatt's Painting: "Breakfast in Bed"
Edward Hopper's Painting: "Nighthawks"
Grant Wood's Painting: "American Gothic"
Charles Sheeler's Painting: "Two Against the White"
Franz Kline's Painting: "Mahoning"
Mark Rothko's Painting: "Number 22, 1949"

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