There's a piece in the New York Times today featuring the four Albright-Knox Art Gallery works of art that were released as stamps this past Thursday. Writer Roberta Smith is correct in pointing out that though each artist's name appears on the front of the stamp, with information on the back, it is unfortunate that the respective gallery and location was not mentioned and easily could have been.

The Abstract Expressionists commemorative postage stamps, featuring works by Hans Hoffmann, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Joan Mitchell, should not only shine a light on the movement, they should credit the galleries that experimented with the style and gave wall space to the risk-takers. Over the years the Albright-Knox has taken a lot of heat for sticking with its modernist ways - it's times like these that the decisions made should also be commemorated.

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