caption: United States Postal Service dinosaur stamps. In 1989 the U.S. Postal Service asked me to create art for four dinosaur postage stamps (technically three dinosaurs and a pterosaur). I was already neck-deep in my first National Geographic assignment, and I almost declined. In the end, I agreed to create the art, but only if I could work very small, at a scale of 1.5 times the size of a stamp, instead of the usual scale of five times stamp size. They agreed, and the stamps came out later that year. The stamps caused an uproar, because one of them used the name Brontosaurus , which had been formally replaced by the name Apatosaurus . Editorials were written about the deplorable state of our education system. <PERSON> weighed in with an essay and a book titled: Bully for Brontosaurus. The original paintings of Stegosaurus , Tyrannosaurus, Apatosaurus and Pteranodon are buried in the bowels of the United States Post Office (remember that room at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark ?), but I saved my scribbles leading up to the painting, and present them here for sale. Graphite with acrylic, 24 by 36 inches, collection of the artist
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