Women’s Rowing Forever Stamps, 2022 Sheet – Cards, Letters and Stamp Collecting

This issuance celebrates women’s rowing, a graceful but demanding sport in which American women have excelled.

Four different stamp designs are featured in a pane of 20 stamps arranged as five staggered rows of four, each row comprising two se-tenant pairs. The artwork, which covers the entire pane, is a stylized illustration of five eight-person crews on the water, apparently practicing or possibly racing. Although the rowers face left, toward the stern ends of the “shells,” they are moving toward the right. The ninth person in each shell, at the left end, is the coxswain. She is the only one facing in the direction the shell is moving, as her job is to steer. The shells are so long, they are cut off by the edges of the pane.

Nancy Stahl designed and illustrated the stamps and pane. Ethel Kessler was the project art director.