About This Stamp
Five 33-cent Arctic Animals commemorative stamps were issued on March 12, 1999, in Barrow, Alaska.
Wildlife has been one of the most popular stamp subjects. These five stamps, repeated three times in varying orders in a gummed pane of 15, are color reproductions of existing photographs of individual Arctic animals. The stamps were designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, D.C., and photographed by Art Wolfe (Arctic Hare), Joe McDonald (Wolf), Zig Leszczynski (Snowy Owl), Gary Schultz, (Arctic Fox), Jeff Foott (Polar Bear), and Johnny Johnson (polar bear family).
73.155 million stamps were printed by the Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., in the offset process.
Stamp Art Director, Stamp Designer
Derry Noyes
For more than 40 years Derry Noyes has designed and provided art direction for close to 800 United States postage stamps and stamp products. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Hampshire College and a master of fine arts degree from Yale University.
Noyes worked as a graphics designer at Beveridge and Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm, until 1979 when she established her own design firm, Derry Noyes Graphics. Her clients have included museums, corporations, foundations, and architectural and educational institutions. Her work has been honored by American Illustration, the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Communication Arts, Critique magazine, Graphis, Creativity International, and the Society of Illustrators.
Before becoming an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, she served as a member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 1981 to 1983.
Noyes is a resident of Washington, D.C.