Arizona:
Cactus Wren and Saguaro Cactus Blossom
Gouache on board
Artist: Arthur
and Alan
D. Singer
Art director: Bradbury Thompson
First day of issue: April 14, 1982
Some animals are never captured on stamps, but the cactus
wren has been spotted twice on U.S. postage. One rests
on a saguaro blossom in this 1982 painting by Arthur
and Alan D. Singer; another perches on a brittlebush
in the 1999 stamp pane that honored plants and animals
in the Sonoran Desert.
