About This Stamp
With the 11th stamp in its Legends of Hollywood series, the U.S. Postal Service honors Henry Fonda, one of America’s greatest actors, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Artist Drew Struzan based his stamp portrait of Fonda on a photograph taken by Frank Powolny in 1941. For the selvage, Struzan did a drawing based on a photograph selected by art director Derry Noyes, showing Fonda in his iconic performance as dispossessed farmer Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Art Director
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.