This article lists people whose artwork has been featured on stamps of the United States. For this purpose "featured" is not limited to complete works but includes any identifiable representation of their works. Thus the "Geophysical Year" stamp of 1958 is considered to feature the work of Michelangelo because it shows two hands from his Creation of Adam. The date after the name refers to the year when that person's work first appeared on a stamp of the United States. For a list of persons portrayed on U.S. stamps, see People on stamps of the United States.
The United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, but several cities had previously issued their own provisional stamps.
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- Josef Albers (1980), "Homage to the Square: Glow"
- Sarah Fisher Clampitt Ames (1938), Abraham Lincoln bust
- Antonello da Messina (1990), "Madonna and Child"
- John James Audubon (1963), "Columbia Jays"
- Thomas Ball (artist) (1940) Emancipation Memorial
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1922), Statue of Liberty
- Chester Beach (1938), William Henry Harrison bust
- Giovanni Bellini (1992),
- George Bellows (1998), "Stag at Sharkey's"
- Thomas Hart Benton (painter) (1971), "Independence and the Opening of the West"
- George Caleb Bingham (1998), "Boatmen on the Missouri"
- Karl Bitter (1953), Louisiana Purchase statue
- Gutzon Borglum (1952), Mount Rushmore National Memorial
- Solon Borglum (1948), Rough Rider Monument
- Sandro Botticelli (1940), "Primavera"
- Václav Brožík (1893), "Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella"
- Andrew Bucci (1967)
- Michelangelo Buonarotti (1958), "The Creation of Adam"
- Jacques Caffieri (1908), Benjamin Franklin bust
- Alexander Calder (1998), "Portrait of a Young Man"
- Annibale Carracci (1989),
- Mary Cassatt (1966), "The Boating Party"
- Gerald R. Cassidy (1940), "Coronado and His Captains"
- George Catlin (1998), "White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas"
- Giuseppe Ceracchi (1870), Thomas Jefferson bust
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1975), "Child with Top"
- Cima da Conegliano (1993), "Madonna and Child in a Landscape"
- Gilmore David Clarke (1964), "Unisphere"
- John Singleton Copley, (1965), "The Copley Family"
- William A. Coulter (1923), "Golden Gate"
- Thomas Crawford (sculptor) (1923), Statue of Freedom
- Currier and Ives (1974), "The Road, Winter"
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1977), James Cook portrait
- Gerard David (1978), "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
- Stuart Davis (painter) (1964), "To the Fine Arts"
- Andrea della Robbia (1978), "Madonna and Child with Cherubim"
- Luca della Robbia (1985), "Madonna and Child"
- Paolo de Matteis (1996),
- Dr. Seuss (1999), "The Cat in the Hat"
- Marcel Duchamp (1998), "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"
- Asher Brown Durand (1998), "Kindred Spirits"
- Thomas Eakins (1966), "The Biglin Brothers Racing"
- Luke Fildes (1947), "The Doctor"
- James Montgomery Flagg (1998), "I Want You"
- James Earle Fraser (sculptor) (1926), John Ericsson Memorial
- Daniel Chester French (1926), Minute Man statue
- Thomas Gainsborough (1975), "Mrs. Douglas"
- Domenico Ghirlandaio (1975), "Madonna and Child"
- Charles Dana Gibson (1998), "Gibson Girl"
- Giorgione (1971), "The Adoration of the Shepherds"
- Giotto di Bondone (1995), "Madonna and Child"
- Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1937), Kamehameha statue
- Francisco Goya (1975), "Don Antonio Noriega"
- Henry Bryan Hall (1931), Casimir Pulaski portrait
- William Harnett (1969), "Old Models"
- George Peter Alexander Healy (1959), Abraham Lincoln portrait
- A. G. Heaton (1893), "The Recall of Columbus"
- John Held, Jr. (1998), "The Blues"
- Hokusai 1974, :"Five Feminine Virtues"
- Winslow Homer (1962), "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)"
- Edward Hopper (1970), "The Lighthouse at Two Lights"
- Jean-Antoine Houdon (1908), George Washington bust
- Robert Indiana (1973), "Love"
- Charles Jalabert (1923), Martha Washington portrait
- Eastman Johnson (1976), "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
- Joshua Johnson (1998), "The Westwood Children"
- Alfred Jones (engraver) (1890), Thomas Jefferson portrait
- Charles Keck (1938), John Tyler bust
- Charles R. Knight (1923), "American Buffalo"
- Emmanuel Leutze (1893), "Columbus in Chains"
- J. C. Leyendecker (1977), "George Washington at Valley Forge."
- Kenneth G. Libbrecht (2006)
- Jean-Étienne Liotard (1975), "Mademoiselle Lavergne"
- Filippo Lippi (1984), Madonna and Child"
- Lorenzo Lotto (1970), "The Nativity"
- John MacWhirter (1898), "Western Cattle in Storm"
- David Martin (artist) (1972), Benjamin Franklin portrait
- Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy (1972), "Mary, Queen of Heaven"
- Hans Memling (1966), "Madonna and Child with Angels"
- Maria Sibylla Merian (1997), "Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam"
- Ervine Metzl (1957-1960)
- Clark Mills (sculptor) (1923), George Washington bust
- Thomas Moran (1998), "Cliffs of Green River"
- Giovanni Battista Moroni (1987, "A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna"
- Grandma Moses (1969), "July Fourth"
- Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1893), "Isabella Pledging Her Jewels"
- Myron (1932, "Discobolus"
- Kadir Nelson (2000's)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1996), "Red Poppy"
- Charles Willson Peale (1932), George Washington portrait
- Rembrandt Peale (1958), James Monroe portrait
- Pietro Perugino (1986), "Madonna and Child"
- John F. Peto (1974), "Old Scraps"
- Ammi Phillips (1998), "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog"
- Antoni Popiel (1933), Tadeusz Kościuszko statue
- William Henry Powell (1893), "Columbus in Sight of Land"
- Hiram Powers (1870), Thomas Jefferson bust
- Bela Pratt (1925, Nathan Hale statue
- Alexander Phimister Proctor (1951), "Bucking Bronco"
- Raphael (1973), "The Small Cowper Madonna"
- Frederic Remington (1898), "Troops Guarding Train"
- Norman Rockwell (1972), "Tom Sawyer"
- Randolph Rogers (1893), Columbus door panel
- Antoniazzo Romano (1991), "Virgin and Child with Donor"
- Charles Marion Russell (1961), "The Trail Boss"
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1909), Abraham Lincoln statue
- Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (1932), George Washington portrait
- Henry Sandham (1925), "Battle of Lexington"
- Sano di Pietro (1997), "Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome"
- Bruce Saville (1929), Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument
- Belle Kinney Scholz (1938), Andrew Jackson statue
- Ben Shahn (1998), "Prohibition Enforced"
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff (1973), Lyndon B. Johnson portrait
- Frederick William Sievers (1938), James Madison bust
- Franklin Simmons (1938), Ulysses S. Grant statue
- Elisabetta Sirani (1994), "Virgin and Child"
- John French Sloan (1971), "The Wake of the Ferry"
- Junius Brutus Stearns (1937), "Signing of the Constitution"
- Gilbert Stuart (1861), George Washington portrait
- Thomas Sully (1903), Andrew Jackson portrait
- Gerard ter Borch (1975), "Lady Writing Letter"
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1982), "Madonna of the Goldfinch"
- William B. T. Trego (1976), "Washington Reviewing His Army at Valley Forge"
- John Trumbull (1969), "Signing of the Declaration of Independence"Jan van Eyck
- Jan van Eyck, (1968), "The Annunciation"
- Crispijn van de Passe Van de Passe family (1907), John Smith portrait
- Simon van de Passe Van de Passe family (1907), Pocahontas portrait
- John Vanderlyn (1869), "The Landing of Columbus"
- Frank Vittor (1930), George Washington statue
- Leonard Volk (1870), Abraham Lincoln statue
- Edmund Franklin Ward (1926), "Battle of White Plains"
- Adolph Alexander Weinman (1938), Benjamin Harrison bust
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1932), "Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother"
- Gilbert White (painter) (1940), Daniel Boone mural
- Archibald Willard (1976), "The Spirit of '76"
- William Joseph Williams (1932), George Washington portrait
- James Anthony Wills (1990), Dwight D. Eisenhower portrait
- Grant Wood (1996), "Young Corn"
- Frederick Coffay Yohn (1929), "Capture of Fort Sackville"
- Rudolph F. Zallinger (1970), "The Age of Reptiles"
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