A Bill Ritchie Artwork in

The Frances Liao Collection

Twenty-one Stamps. Artists stamps with handwriting. Multiple-color images custom mounted in  8 X 10 frame. Includes gift to Frances Liao from Buddha Gate, a Buddhist Monastery in California. Signed lower right. Framed in wood collector frame.

Artist's statement: My artist's stamps date back to the mid-sixties when I drew tiny silverpoint drawings and pasted them on letters addressed to fictional addresses. They always came back with the postal services "Return to Sender" stamped on them. In 2003, as I neared the closure of my 3-year retrospective of my 40 years in art, I created a collection of 40 stamps, one for each year, using an artwork selected from that year. Collectors sometimes asked for "custom framed" sets, like this one which I created for Frances Liao.

Learn more about Frances Liao in an article, click here.