His stamp paintings are textured, bumpy canvases made up of rubber stamps. And they’re brimming with hidden messages, read backward, like a stamp. Here he helps us to deconstruct one painting ...

“I stopped doing art class in like seventh grade because I was bored,” said Robert Peterson, the artist commissioned to paint the 2023 U.S. Postal Black heritage Stamp. He never picked up a ...

The stamp image is adapted from a black-and-white photograph Martha Holmes shot for the Life layout, showing Pollock hunkered down at work on a painting that would become “Number 1, 1949.” ...