Statues On Stamps

Mexico
Philatelic Exhibition Tulsa
May 17, 1939
The Pioneer Woman monument is a bronze sculpture in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It was designed by Bryant Baker and dedicated on April 22, 1930. The statue is of a sunbonneted woman leading a child by the hand.
The statue was donated to the State of Oklahoma by millionaire oilman E. W. Marland. According to its dedicatory plaque, Pioneer Woman was created "in appreciation of the heroic character of the women who braved the dangers and endured the hardships incident to the daily life of the pioneer and homesteader in this country."

United States
Newspaper Periodicals stamp
July 1, 1885
The Statue of Freedom, originally named Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford (1814–1857) that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The statue depicts a female figure wearing a military helmet and holding a sheathed sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath and shield in her left.

United States
75th Anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment
October 20, 1940
The design reproduces the bronze sculpture by Thomas Ball (1819 - 1911), paid by voluntary subscriptions from emancipated slaves, which depicts Lincoln presenting the Emancipation Proclamation to a black man. The statue stands in Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia.

El Salvador
400th Anniversary of the Discovery of America
July 1, 1893
One of the three commemorative stamps features the Monument to Christopher Columbus in Genoa by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777 – 1850). Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) was born in Genoa. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. During his first voyage in 1492, Columbus reached the New World, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named "San Salvador". Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America.

Honduras
Tourism - Maya Ruins
March 1, 1978
The stamp features Pauahtun Head in the Maya Site of Copán (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). This and a companion head represent the largest sculpted figures found in Copán. The ruined citadel and imposing public squares reveal the three main stages of development between 427 A.D. and the early 10th century.

Canada
Centenary of Canadian Supreme Court
September 2, 1975
The design shows a bronze sculpture Statue of Justicia by Walter Seymour Allward (1876 - 1955). The statue stands outside the Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Sweden
EUROPA - Picasso statue in Kristinehamn
April 29, 1974
The Picasso sculpture (Picassoskulpturen) is located on Lake Vanern near Kristinehamn, Sweden. This 15 m high Statue is a portrait of Picasso's wife, Jacqueline. It was designed by Pablo Picasso and built by Norwegian artist Carl Nejsar in 1965. Its steel frame was filled with small stones and concrete, and the exterior patterns were created using sand blasting technique.

Iceland
New York World's Fair
April 3, 1939
One of the four designs features a bronze statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni.
Thorfinn Karlsefni (980 - 1030?) was an Icelandic explorer. He was the first European to attempt to establish a settlement on the American mainland around 1010 A.D. The statue, as one of a series of sculptures emblematic of the history of America, was installed at Boat House Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania unveiled on November 20, 1920.

United States
Liberty
November 11, 1922
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The copper statue was a gift to the United States from the people of France. It was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834 - 1904), built by Gustave Eiffel (1832 - 1923), and dedicated on October 28, 1886.
The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata with inscription of July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of the United States and has welcomed soldiers home and greeted new immigrants since 1886.

United States
Kosciuszko Issue
October 13, 1933
The stamp commemorates the 150th anniversary Kosciusko's naturalization as an American citizen. The design shows the statue of the uniformed general that sits in Lafayette Park in the District of Columbia.
General Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746 - 1817) was a Polish military engineer and a military leader. He moved to North America and took part in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army. He served under George Washington and fought in several key battles. He is best known for his engineering of the fortifications at West Point between 1778 and 1780. In 1783, the Continental Congress promoted him to brigadier general in recognition of his services.

United States
Tercentenary of Rhode Island
May 4, 1936
The stamp depicts the statue of Roger Williams that stands in the city of Providence near the State House.
Roger Williams (1603 - 1683) led a group of followers out of Massachusetts, seeking a place where religious tolerance and free thought could flourish. He began the colony of Providence Plantation near Narragansett Bay in 1636. This was the nucleus of what became the territory and later the state of Rhode Island.

Malta
Independence Monument
December 9, 1991
The Independence Monument was erected at the entrance to Il-Mall at Floriana in 1989 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the independence of Malta. The monument was designed by sculptor Gianni Bonnici (1932 - ). The monument depicts Malta in the form of a female rising above sea waves who with one hand throwing off the shackles and raises his other hand over a national flag.

France
Resistance Monuments - The Île de Sein Monument
April 9, 1962
The Île de Sein is a French island in the Atlantic Ocean, off the western tip of the continent of Europe. The monument honors the 114 (or 128) male inhabitants aged between 14 and 54 (or 60) who, upon hearing General Charles de Gaulle's call to resistance during World War II, set sail in their fishing boats for Britain to join the Free French forces in June 1940.

Mexico
New York World Fair - Statue of Morelos
May 2, 1939
A 40-meter statue of José María Morelos, a great hero of Mexico's independence, is located on the island of Janitzio in Lake Pátzcuaro in the state of Michoacán. A spiral staircase leads to the top, and a balcony offering a panoramic view of the lake is in the cuff of his sleeve.

Guatemala
Fray Bartolome de Las Casas - Defender of the Indians
October 8, 1949
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 - 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed Protector of the Indians. He spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial abuse of indigenous peoples, especially by trying to convince the Spanish court to adopt a more humane policy of colonization.
The stamp features his statue in the atrium of the Santo Domingo Church in Guatemala City.