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| Literary
Arts: Ernest Hemingway
Oil on board
Artist: Greg
Rudd
Art director: Jack Williams
First day of issue: July 17, 1989
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This stamp was an early example of portraying a Literary
Arts honoree against an especially symbolic landscape.
The background for this stamp is Africa, the setting
for several classic tales in which Hemingway’s
characters are pitted against not only nature but also
their own human weaknesses. |
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