USPS to Honor Photographer Linda McCartney With New Stamp Collection

The United States Postal Service will issue a collection of 20 postage stamps featuring the nature and still-life photography of Linda McCartney, with a first-day-of-issue ceremony scheduled for 25 September at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The USPS announced the collection in a press release dated 24 August 2026, describing a pane of 20 stamps showcasing five different photographs, including images of sunflowers and a teapot. The stamps were designed by USPS art director Derry Noyes and will be available for purchase at post office branches across the country on the day of the ceremony.

Linda McCartney was born Linda Eastman in 1941. Before her marriage to Paul McCartney in 1969 — after which she took his name — she had already built a career behind the camera. In 1968, her portrait of Eric Clapton made her the first woman photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. Six years later, in 1974, she appeared on the magazine's cover herself, photographed alongside Paul.

She also played keyboards in Wings, the post-Beatles band Paul McCartney formed in the 1970s. Beyond music and photography, Linda McCartney was a prominent advocate for animal rights and vegetarianism, campaigns she pursued publicly for much of her life. She died of breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.

The USPS release frames the stamps as a tribute to her work as both a photographer and an activist. The five selected images draw from her catalogue of nature and still-life pictures — a body of work that sat alongside her better-known music-world portraits but reflected a quieter, more personal focus on the natural world.

For a photographer whose first Rolling Stone cover was a rock star's face, the stamps close the circle on a different side of that catalogue: flowers, household objects, and the kind of image that travels on an envelope rather than a magazine rack. The 25 September ceremony at MoMA will mark the official release.