About This Stamp
The artwork of plate 354 from a reprint of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was chosen by art director Derry Noyes for this second issuance in the American Treasures series. It portrays two male Louisiana tanagers (now known as western tanagers) in spring plumage (above) and two scarlet tanagers (below), an “old male” in spring plumage and an “old female.”
The single design was issued as a pane of 20 stamps.
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.