Paul Calle

Paul Calle was an artist whose work reflected the dramatic era of America’s Western heritage as well as the one in which he lived. For Calle, the dimensions of art were as vast as the wild, wind-swept plains of the West, as infinite as outer space and as small as the historic scenes he captured on postage stamps for the United States Postal Service.

Calle designed more than 30 stamps in as many years. Calle was a master of both oil painting and pencil drawing. His drawings — often very large — show incredible control and sensitivity; they have the quality of fine etchings.