About This Stamp
The Postal Service highlights the scenic beauty of America’s waterways with this stamped card. Whether racing along the coast or simply bobbing in harbors, the bright sails and sleek forms of sailboats add to the allure of any water view.
The art features an impressionistic painting of a moored sailboat. The sailboat, a one-masted sloop, rests with its sails furled while a single sailor stands on deck. Artist Burton Silverman based the oil painting on a photograph he took during a summer sailing trip to Long Island Sound. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamped card.
The 35-cent Sailboat Stamped Card is being issued at the Forever® postcard rate. It will always be equal to the value of the postcard rate in effect at the time of use, even if the rate increases after purchase.
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.