This is close enough to USPS issuing horror movie stamps.
It’s common knowledge that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was inspired by both real-life serial killer Ed Gein and a fateful trip Tobe Hooper took to a hardware store, but what you may not know is that Hooper was also heavily inspired by artist Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting, Christina’s World.
Wyeth’s painting, housed in the Museum of Modern Art, was itself inspired by a young girl who suffered from Polio, and it’s likely that no one would’ve bat an eye had it been used as the poster for Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The image of a woman crawling on the ground with a lone farmhouse in the distance very much evokes the feeling of Hooper’s 1974 masterpiece, so it’s not hard to see how it influenced the rise of Leatherface and his twisted family.
As it turns out, the US Postal Service is releasing a set of stamps that celebrate Andrew Wyeth’s haunting and enigmatic paintings, and Christina’s World is one of twelve that they’ve chosen to honor!
Issued to commemorate the centennial of his birth, these stamps celebrate Wyeth as one of the most prominent American artists of the 20th century.
This sheet includes 12 stamps that each feature a detail of a different Andrew Wyeth painting. The paintings are: “Wind from the Sea” (1947), “Big Room” (1988), “Christina’s World” (1948), “Alvaro and Christina” (1968), “Frostbitten” (1962), “Sailor’s Valentine” (1985), “Soaring” (1942–1950), “North Light” (1984), “Spring Fed” (1967), “The Carry” (2003), “Young Bull” (1960), and “My Studio” (1974).
The Andrew Wyeth stamps will be available on Wednesday, July 12th.
