Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-24
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT

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stamps are to be more beau
tiful. The desire of leading
philatelists and philatelic
writers, expressed again and
again during many years. for
postal designs of distinction
is to be gratifled.
This became known last
week when David E. Finley,
chairman Of the Commission
of Fine Arts and director Of
the National Gallery of Art.
told The Star that the COM
mission, the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. the Post
Office Department and the
National Academy of Design
have reached an agreement
under the terms Of which a
COMMITTEE to act in an adj
visory capacity" on stamp
projects has been appointed.
The men designated to con-
suit with Bureau and Depart
ment officers are: Norman
Kent, Fritz Eichenberg and
Anthony de Francisci-all art
lists in their own right. AS
alternates the National Acad-
envy and the Fine Arts Com
mission have agreed upon:
Thomas Maitland Cleland,
Paul Manship and Edward A.
Wilson-likewise eminent Gre
alive artists.
Atoms Role in Peace
It is understood that the
first stamp to be produced I'M
der these distinguished aus
pices will be a commemorative
to publicize the atoms-for-
peace program. announced by
Postmaster General Summer
field on Tuesday with the stip-
ulation: Further details -.
later"
This adhesive admittedly
will be q challenging problem.
It is not to show the explo-
sion of an atom bomb, but
rather is to illustrate the con-
structive, pacific and wholly
beneficial aspects OF the
broken atom" Since nobody
as yet knows what this phe-
nomenon looks like when ap-
piled to peaceable purposes.
the stamp necessarily will be
symbolic in character; and
philatelists naturally are pes
simistic about stamps de-
pendent upon symbolism to
explain their existence.
Accustomed to Problems
However, the National Acad-
envy group of advisers are
accustomed to difficult prob
lens, and the public has
trusted them on previous &C.
casions without disappoint-
ment. Mr.. Manship probably
is the most notably famous OF
the six appointees. A native
of st. Paul, Mimi, born on
Christmas Day, 1885, he was
educated at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts in
Philadelphia and the Ameri-
can Academy in Rome; is
president of the American
Academy Of Arts and Letters
and a past president Of the
National Sculpture Society;
has won many awards and
prizes and is represented in
many galleries and museums
on both sides Of the Atlantic.
Mr.. Manship's sculptured
achievements include the
statue of Samuel Osgood, first
Federal Postmaster General, in
the Post Office Department,
and the original model for the
1-cent green Four Freedoms
stamp of 1913. Mr.. Manship
has a winter home in New
York and a summer home at
Gloucester, Mass. He fire.
quently is in Washington on
professional business.
Kent's Works Exhibited
Mr.. Kent, born in Pitts
burgh in 1908, studied in
Rochester, N. Y, in New York
City and in Italy; taught at
william Smith and Hobart
colleges; was editor of the
American Artist Magazine, art
director of Readers Digest and
art editor of True Magazine,
and has had numerous one
man exhibitions of his draw
ings, woodcuts and paintings.
He is represented in the Cor
coran Gallery and the Library
of Congress.
Exactly two years older than
his first colleague on the
stamp advisory council. Mr..
Eichenberg is a native of Co.
logne, Germany; came to the
United States in 1888 and was
naturalized in 194l. He is an
instructor in book illustrating
at Pratt Institute. Brooklyn,
N. Y. and has been a winner
in print exhibitions of the
Library of Congress on six &C.
casions. A member of the So
ciety of Friends, he is the
author of a book entitled