Youth
Classics:
Little House on the Prairie
Acrylic on board
Artist: James
Lamb
Art director: Richard Sheaff
First day of issue: October 23, 1993
James Lamb enlisted his daughter’s friend to pose
for this artwork honoring beloved children’s novelist
Laura Ingalls Wilder. He then added an authentic personal
touch: The sunbonnet depicted in the painting belonged
to his mother’s aunt, a Montana homesteader.
