--- title: Linda McCartney Stamps Go on Sale With Four Still Lifes and a Horse description: The Linda McCartney stamps went on sale Sept. 25, 2026. See the five photographs on the pane, why they were chosen, and how to buy them. author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief) date: 2026-09-27T13:03:10.864Z updated: 2026-09-27T13:03:10.871Z canonical: https://richwoman.co/article/linda-mccartney-stamps-still-lifes-horse image: https://cdn.nanimediahouse.com/linda-mccartney-stamp-pane-351175.webp categories: Culture & Society content_type: News region: United States publication: Rich Woman Magazine schema_type: Article --- The new US stamps honoring Linda McCartney went on sale nationwide on Sept. 25, 2026, with five of her photographs: four still lifes and a picture of a horse. None of the five is one of the 1960s music portraits that first made her name. The Postal Service dedicated the pane of 20 Forever stamps at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a day after what would have been Linda's 85th birthday. Her daughter, Mary McCartney, joined Postmaster General David Steiner at the ceremony, where Steiner said Linda "led with her heart" in her art, her music and her advocacy. The horse is in "Shadow. Sussex," a black-and-white photograph from 1984 of the animal standing on its hind legs in the snow. "Carnation. Sussex," from 1985, is a single yellow carnation in a vase against a white lace curtain. "Sunflowers," a color picture from the mid-1990s, shows sunflowers and other brightly colored flowers on a gray, weathered wooden table. "Through a Glass Teapot," from 1996, is a black-and-white photograph of a half-full glass teapot with a tree reflected upside down in the glass. Linda took "Cherries, Antigua" in 1969, at the same shoot that produced the cover of Paul McCartney's 1970 debut solo album, "McCartney." ## Derry Noyes Says Linda Should Be Recognized Apart From the Beatles Derry Noyes, a Postal Service art director who has designed or art-directed close to 800 US stamps and stamp products over more than 40 years, worked with the McCartney team to narrow down the photographs, a process she calls "seamless." The Postal Service's stamp site says the pictures were chosen to reflect Linda's love of animals. Before this project, Noyes knew Linda mainly for her portraits, and working on the stamps gave her a new appreciation of Linda's range as a photographer. "She clearly had a discerning, sophisticated eye," Noyes says. "Her photographs are really very interesting, thoughtful observations of daily life. The compositions are unusual, and her attention to detail is beautiful." "I think it's important that we are recognizing her independently, not in the context of the Beatles," Noyes says. She hopes the stamps will spark interest in the other parts of Linda's life. On the pane's border is "Self Portrait," a 1992 black-and-white photograph of Linda behind her camera, a picture Noyes says she is particularly fond of. ## Linda Photographed Rock Musicians, Played Keyboards in Wings and Started a Vegetarian Food Company Linda was born Linda Louise Eastman in Scarsdale, New York, and started taking pictures while studying art history at the University of Arizona, where she learned from the photographer Hazel Larsen Archer. In 1966 she was working as an editorial receptionist at Town and Country magazine when she photographed the Rolling Stones on a yacht cruising the Hudson River. The editors liked the pictures enough to [run them as a feature, the first of many magazine spreads](https://news.usps.com/2026/08/24/usps-to-honor-linda-mccartney-with-five-stamps/) for her. She went on to photograph Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and Aretha Franklin, in portraits the Postal Service describes as relaxed and intimate, often with a sense of joy and humor. In 1968, with a portrait of Eric Clapton, she became the first female photographer to have her work on the cover of Rolling Stone. She also took Polaroids of her family, her animals and small everyday moments. Linda met Paul McCartney while on assignment in London in 1967, and they married on March 12, 1969. In 1974 the couple appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, which made Linda the first person to both photograph a cover of the magazine and appear on one. She joined Paul's band Wings in 1971 on keyboards and vocals, and the band won two Grammy Awards before breaking up in 1981. The McCartneys became vegetarians in the early 1970s. Her cookbook "Linda McCartney's Home Cooking," published in 1989, became a bestseller, and she launched Linda McCartney Foods in 1991. Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died on April 17, 1998, at age 56, in Tucson, Arizona. > "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." > — Mary McCartney, Linda's daughter ## You Can Buy the Stamps at Post Offices, Online or by Phone The stamps are Forever stamps, priced at the First-Class Mail rate and sold in panes of 20. You can order them from The Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by phone at 844-737-7826, or by mail through USA Philatelic, and Post Offices across the country began selling them on Sept. 25. More on the Linda McCartney stamps is at [stampsforever.com](https://stampsforever.com/stamps/linda-mccartney). ## FAQ **Q: Can I buy a single Linda McCartney stamp?** No. Postal Service rules say the pane of 20 must not be split and the stamps must not be sold one at a time, so each purchase is a full pane with all five designs. **Q: How do I get a first-day-of-issue postmark?** Put the stamps on envelopes you have addressed, to yourself or to anyone else, place them inside a larger envelope and mail it to FDOI, Linda McCartney Stamps, USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services, 8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300, Kansas City, MO 64144-9900. Orders must be postmarked by Jan. 25, 2027. The Postal Service applies the first-day-of-issue postmark and mails the envelopes back, free for up to 50 and 5 cents for each one after that. **Q: Where can I see more of Linda McCartney's photography?** Linda published three photography books: "Linda's Pictures: A Collection of Photographs" (1976), "Sun Prints" (1988), which uses 19th-century cyanotype techniques, and "Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era" (1992). Her official website, lindamccartney.com, has portfolios of her work, including her Polaroids and Sun Prints, and lists a retrospective, "The Linda McCartney Retrospective: From the Light," at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, from May 23, 2026. Her photographs have been shown in the past at the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and at venues across the United States.