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Other Calle stamps include those honoring Franklin D.

#First man on the moon stamp 10 cent value series#

Among this noted artist’s many distinctions is the First Man on the Moon series of stamps that he designed which sold more than 150 billion. For Calle, the dimensions of art can be as vast as the wild, wind-swept plains of the West, as infinite as outer space and as small as the historic scenes he captures on postage stamps for the United States Postal Service.Ĭalle has designed more than 30 stamps in as many years. Paul Calle is an artist whose work reflects the dramatic era of America's Western heritage as well as the one in which he lives. Calle divulged the secret of his rigorous craft: “When you do a stamp,” he said, “think big, but draw small.” Besides his son Chris, he is survived by another son, Paul P., a veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo a daughter, Claudia Calle Beal and six grandchildren. Calle’s wife, the former Olga Wyhowanec, whom he married in 1951, died in 2003.

As the moon lacked a post office, a proof made from the plate was hand-canceled by the men aboard the spacecraft. That morning, when the astronauts lifted off, one of the things they carried was the engraved printing plate of Mr. He captured their preparations in a series of intimate pen-and-ink sketches later exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum. Calle was the only artist allowed to observe the astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, as they readied themselves for the mission - eating breakfast, donning their spacesuits and the like. On July 16, 1969, the day Apollo 11 was launched, Mr. Calle’s early art for the program includes a pair of 5-cent stamps, issued in 1967, depicting the Gemini capsule and the astronaut Ed White making the first American spacewalk in 1965. In 1962, he was among the inaugural group of artists chosen for the NASA Art Program, a documentary record of the space program that has produced thousands of works to date. Calle did cover artwork for science-fiction pulp magazines like Galaxy, Fantasy Fiction and Super Science Stories, as well as for general-interest publications like The Saturday Evening Post. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and during the Korean War was an illustrator for the Army.Įarly in his career, Mr. Paul Calle was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on March 3, 1928. Father and son also collaborated on stamps for Sweden, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and the United Nations. With Chris, he designed two 1994 stamps - a 29-cent first-class stamp and a $9.95 express-mail stamp - commemorating the moon landing’s 25th anniversary.

Calle’s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and elsewhere. Buck (1983), the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1984) and folk-art carousel horses (1988 and again, with new artwork, in 1995). Douglas MacArthur (1971), Robert Frost (1974), the International Year of the Child (1979), Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan (1980), Frederic Remington (1981), Pearl S. His other stamps include ones honoring Gen. He was best known for the 10-cent stamp, commissioned by NASA and issued in 1969, commemorating the Apollo 11 moon landing that year. Calle (pronounced KAL-ee) designed more than 40 United States stamps, licked by generations of postwar Americans. The cause was melanoma, said his son Chris, who is also a stamp designer.Ī longtime Stamford resident, Mr. Calle, one of the most highly regarded stamp designers in the nation, was 82. Paul Calle, a commercial artist whose most famous work was no bigger than a postage stamp, died on Thursday December 30 th, 2010 in Stamford, Conn. Read more WESTERN AND MOUNTIAN MAN ARTIST PAUL CALLE. Published: DecemThe below is from the NY Times Paul Calle, Postage Stamp Designer, Is Dead at 82 WESTERN AND MOUNTIAN MAN ARTIST PAUL CALLE.