In 1998 verschenen er in de Verenigde Staten een vel met twintig bijzondere postzegels met bekende schilderijen uit vier eeuwen Amerikaanse schilderkunst. Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, Roy Liechtenstein en Andy Warhol zijn niet vertegenwoordigd.
John Foster “Portrait of Richard Mather”
The Freake Limner “Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary”
Ammi Phillips “Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog”
Rembrandt Peale “Rubens Peale with a Geranium”
John James Audubon “Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longrostris”
George Caleb Bingham “Boatmen on the Missouri”
Asher B. Durand “Kindred Spirits”
Joshua Johnson “The Westwood Children”
William M. Harnett “Music and Literature”
Winslow Homer “Fog Warning”
George Catlin “The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas”
Thomas Moran “Cliffs of Green River”
Albert Bierstadt “The Last of the Buffalo”
Frederic Edwin Church “Niagara”
Mary Cassatt “Breakfast in Bed”
Edward Hopper “Nighthawks”
Grant Wood “American Gothic”
Charles Sheeler “Two Against the White”
Franz Kline “Mahoning”
Mark Rothko “Number 22, 1949″
