The United States Post Office issued 10 Abstract Expressionist stamps on Thursday. They depict paintings by 10 artists — Joan Mitchell and the usual male suspects, you might say — and look bright and energetic and very abstract. They’re not the first stamps based on modern paintings, or even Abstract Expressionist ones, but the edition is the first to concentrate on these artists as a group. Seeing them made me feel protective. I was even compelled to offer a talking point to the woman who at the Post Office who sold them to me: if she got any guff about them she could mention that the paintings are all at least 50 years old. She seemed impressed. “They’re not new at all,” I said, somewhat defensively. “They’re classics.
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