About This Stamp
With the issuance of this 10th stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, the U.S. Postal Service honors American film legend John Wayne. Artist Drew Struzan based his painting for the stamp on a black-and-white publicity still of Duke taken during the filming of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). In that movie Wayne portrayed rancher Tom Doniphon.
The selvage art, also by Drew Struzan, depicts Wayne starring as Ethan Edwards in the classic film The Searchers (1956).
Drew Struzan is an influential artist who has illustrated numerous album covers, book covers, and movie posters. His work for the U.S. Postal Service includes the 1990s Celebrate The Century® stamps, as well as Broadway Songwriters (1999), Hollywood Composers (1999), Lucille Ball (2001), and Zora Neale Hurston (2003).
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance © Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. THE SEARCHERS © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Name, image and likeness of John Wayne licensed by Wayne Enterprises, Newport Beach CA. All Rights Reserved.
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.