2024 Autumn Colors

With the issuance of Autumn Colors, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates the radiant beauty of fall with 10 stamps by renowned nature and garden photographer Allen Rokach (1941-2021). Rokach often used what he called the “Rokach effect,‘‘ a technique that gives photos an impressionistic cast.

The pane of 20 stamps shows a portfolio of brilliant photographs taken in a variety of locations around the United States. In addition to the classic autumn colors of orange, red, and yellow, the photographs show flashes of vermilion, ocher, violet, and cobalt in different landscapes.

There are many beautiful places across the United States to experience the wonders of autumn colors. New England attracts millions of visitors each year because weather conditions provide the optimal environment for the range of intense colors so characteristic of this region. Autumn leaves along the Blue Ridge Parkway and Maryland’s Eastern Shore follow the patterns of their leaf cousins in the northeast, albeit with a later start date in some areas depending on the elevation.

Other places to note spectacular fall colors include Aspen, Colorado, named for the golden aspens that surround this Rocky Mountain town; Taos, New Mexico, and surrounding desert; the Great Smoky Mountains; and the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps with existing photographs by Allen Rokach.