The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde has published a high-end book featuring reproductions of her paintings, titled, Adding The Blue. According to the press release, “In 2015, Chrissie Hynde produced an oil painting of a ceramic vase. It proved to be the starting point for Chrissie Hynde’s first body of work, nearly 200 canvases in all. These paintings are now shared for the very first time in Chrissie Hynde’s signed limited edition, Adding The Blue.”
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The U.S. Postal Service has announced that the famed Woodstock festival will be saluted with its very own “Forever Stamp” sometime next year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the legendary three-day-festival held in upstate New York.
According to the announcement, “The stamp art, designed by art director Antonio Alcala, features the image of the dove from graphic artist Arnold Skolnick’s promotional 1969 poster for the festival along with some of the poster’s words: ‘3 Days of Peace and Music.’ In the stamp art the words are stacked in the background in brilliant colors along with the year 1969, USA, and Forever (the value of the stamp). The white dove stands in the foreground.”
The USPS also revealed that the late, great Marvin Gaye would be saluted on a stamp as the latest legend to be featured in its Music Icons series.
