The collection brings five of McCartney’s still lifes and landscapes into circulation, including an image connected to Paul McCartney’s debut solo album.
Linda McCartney’s photographs are the subject of a new US Postal Service stamp collection, released on 25 September following a dedication ceremony at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
The pane of 20 stamps features five images taken between 1969 and the mid-1990s. They include a horse rearing in a snowy Sussex landscape, a glass teapot reflecting a tree, sunflowers and a single yellow carnation. A 1992 self-portrait of McCartney behind her camera appears on the edge of the pane.
The closest link to her music career is Cherries, Antigua. Taken in 1969, the photograph came from the same shoot as the cover of Paul McCartney’s 1970 debut solo album, McCartney.
Before joining Wings on keyboards and vocals, Linda photographed musicians including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin. Her work also extended far beyond the stage, finding character in animals, flowers and everyday objects.
At the ceremony, her daughter Mary McCartney said:
She was a pioneer, she was definitely ahead of her time, but none of it was planned and conscious. It all came from the heart.
The stamps put that quieter side of Linda McCartney’s photography in front of a new audience, while Cherries, Antigua offers a small glimpse of where her visual work and music history met.
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