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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 311 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Citizens’ 

Stamp Advisory Committee, as an entity of the United States Postal 

Service, should issue a commemorative stamp in honor of the 150th 

anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 10, 2019 

Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. 

JACKSON LEE, Mr. COHEN, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. SCHIFF, 

Mr. TONKO, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. HIGGINS

of New York, Mr. SUOZZI, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. SIRES, Mr. 

PALLONE, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. MENG, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of 

New York, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. ESPAILLAT, 

and Mr. JEFFRIES) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, as an entity 

of the United States Postal Service, should issue a commemorative stamp in honor of the 150th anniversary 

of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Whereas The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) was 

founded on April 13, 1870, by civic leaders, artists, businessmen, collectors, and philanthropists for the express 

purpose of bringing art and art education to the American people; 


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Whereas over the last 150 years, The Met has built a collection and education programs that reach over 7 million 

museum visitors from around the country and the world 

every year, bringing both art and education to millions of 

Americans in fulfillment of its original mission; 

Whereas today The Met is the largest art museum in the 

United States with over 4 million items in its collection, 

80,000 of which are on display at any time, and feature 

the work of many of the most important artists in history; 

Whereas throughout its history, The Met has celebrated 

American art and artists and presented the first permanent installation in an American art museum of American colonial and early Federal decorative arts and architecture; 

Whereas The Met has preserved more than a dozen historic 

American interiors from numerous buildings slated for 

demolition to preserve the history of American design; 

Whereas The Met now houses one of the world’s largest and 

most important collections of works by American artists, 

including: Berenice Abbott, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Cole, 

John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Daniel Chester 

French, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, Emanuel 

Leutze, Edmonia Lewis, Maria and Julian Martinez, 

Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederic Remington, Paul Revere, 

Diego Rivera, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, Alfred Stieglitz, Gilbert Stuart, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Kara Walker, and Frank 

Lloyd Wright, among many others; 

Whereas The Met has built reciprocal memberships with 16 

museums across the country to ensure that Americans 


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from every part of the country can enjoy access to the 

treasures of the museum; 

Whereas conservation, preservation, and research has always 

been central to The Met’s mission, and the museum now 

houses centers dedicated to the conservation of objects, 

paintings, paper, photographs, textiles, clothing, and 

other media in the museum’s collection, ensuring that 

these treasures remain accessible to generations of visitors; 

Whereas The Met remains dedicated to providing educational 

resources for millions of Americans through tours, interactive experiences, and educator training; 

Whereas in 2018, over 230,000 people participated in schoolgroup tours of the museum, including guided tours with 

museum experts, self-guided tours tailored to teachers’ 

needs, and opportunities for students to participate in 

hands-on art projects through the museum’s K–12 Studio 

Art Workshop; 

Whereas in 2018, over 5,000 educators participated in The 

Met’s K–12 Educators programs—including teacher 

workshops, Summer Educator Institutes, and The Met 

Professional Learning Community—to support teachers 

integrating the arts into the classroom; 

Whereas The Met makes available art-based lesson plans and 

curriculum resources for free on the museum’s website to 

bring the treasures and learning opportunities of The 

Met to millions of children around the country; 

Whereas The Met has made it a priority to bring art to 

Americans of all ages and developed the MetFamilies and 

MetTeens programs and events specifically to inspire the 

next generation of great American artists; and 


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Whereas The Met has been an American cultural institution 

for nearly 150 years; inspired new artists, historians, and 

collectors; exposed millions of Americans to the history, 

culture, and art of the world; and remains vital to the 

cultural health of the Nation: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

3 (1) the United States Postal Service should 

4 issue a postage stamp honoring the 150th anniver5 sary of the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of 

6 Art; and 

7 (2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 

8 should recommend to the Postmaster General that 

9 such a stamp should be issued. 

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