Edward Hopper (American Treasures)

First Day of Issue: August 24, 2011 | Provincetown, MA 02657

Art director Derry Noyes chose a sunlit painting by Edward Hopper for this tenth entry in the American Treasures series. The Long Leg, painted in oil on canvas in 1935, depicts a boat sailing against the wind near Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The Long Leg is in the collection of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California. It is painted in oil on canvas; its size is 20 x 30-inches. The painting has been cropped for use in the stamp art.

The American Treasures series was inaugurated in 2001. It is intended to showcase beautiful works of American fine art and crafts.

This stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.

The Long Leg, ca. 1935, oil on canvas, 20 × 30 1/4 in. (50.8 × 76.8 cm.), Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California.

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