Dennis Lyall

Dennis Lyall, a native of Iowa, is a 1968 graduate of the University of Kansas. He has worked for over 29 years as a professional illustrator. His clients have included many of the country’s largest advertisers and publishers including: Reader’s Digest; General Electric; Random House; the National Geographic Society; the Franklin Mint; and the U.S. Postal Service. Lyall’s work is in the collections of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Coast Guard and he has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Society of Illustrators. Lyall says about his work on stamp designs: “The story a stamp will tell is limited by its size. I must use my skills to produce an image that is dynamic, attractive, and instantly recognizable ... and not much larger than a person’s thumbnail. The working scale can be very demanding. The paintings I produce are, of course, done larger than stamp size before reproduction, but they are still very small paintings ... the paintings in the CTC series [1910 CTC], for example, were about the size of an adult’s fist.”