About This Stamp
With this stamp pane, the U.S. Postal Service salutes 12 masterworks of modern American architecture. Art director Derry Noyes and designer Margaret Bauer chose breathtaking photographs to honor each building. The picture of the Walt Disney Concert Hall is by Todd Eberle. Guido Guidi photographed the twin apartment towers at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. The classic image of the Chrysler Building was made by Margaret Bourke-White. The Vanna Venturi House was photographed by Matt Wargo. The East Building of the National Gallery of Art is shown in an image made by Ben Spiegel. Grant Mudford took the photograph of the Exeter Academy Library and Georg Fischer photographed the TWA Terminal. The remaining five photographs — of the Guggenheim Museum, the Yale Art and Architecture Building, the High Museum of Art, the Glass House, and the Hancock Center — are by Ezra Stoller.
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.