Postal Service to Dedicate Christmas Stamp Tue., Oct. 18


October 17, 2016 


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Christmas stamp
WHAT:

First-day-of-issue ceremony for the Florentine Madonna and ChildForever stamp.
WHO:

National Gallery of Art Associate Curator for Italian and Spanish Paintings Gretchen Hirschauer  
Italian American Magazine Editor and Chief Miles Fisher
U.S. Postal Service Capital Metro Area Vice President of Operations Linda Malone
U.S. Postal Service Chief Human Resources Officer and Executive Vice President Jeffrey Williamson
Voice of America International Edition Host Lori Lundin
Smithsonian National Postal Museum Director Allen Kane
WHEN:

Tue., Oct. 18, media check-in at 11:30 a.m. Event starts at noon. Media are asked to RSVP to crystal.k.essiaw@usps.gov
WHERE:

Smithsonian National Postal Museum (across from Union Station)
2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
BACKGROUND:

This Christmas stamp features a detail of Madonna and Child, a 15th-century tempera-on-panel painting in the Widener Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The painting is dated to circa 1470, and its anonymous artist is known only as “a Follower of Fra Filippo Lippi and Pesellino.”

The painting in the National Gallery of Art measures 26 7/16 inches high by 18 1/8 inch wide.

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