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Four Centuries of American Art on Stamps

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The United States Postal Service has issued in 1998 a palette of artistic issues. They include a pane of 20 commemoratives reproducing, in its oppinion, 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:

The displayed pane was issued on August 27, 1998Background:Number 22, 1949, by Mark Rothko