For the third time since Israel was admitted to the United Nations, an Israel artist has been honored by the United Nations Postal Administration. The Postal Administration announced today that Willi Wolf Wind, Israel artist now living in the United States, has been selected as a member of a panel of six artists, from as many countries, chosen to draw designs for UN postage stamps to be released in 1956.
The international panel, set up for the first time, has been established “to ensure a wide range of creative talent,” the announcement declared. Mr. Wind shares the honors on the panel with Mrs. Dahl Collings, Australian; Leon Helguera, Mexican; Jean Picart le Doux, Frenchman; David Stone Martin, of Chicago, an American; and Hubert Woyty-Wimmer, an Austrian.
One of the previous UN postal honors given to Israelis went to Mr. Wind in 1952, when he was awarded first prize in the Postal Administration’s international competition. Last spring, another Israeli, George Hamori, of Tel Aviv, won first prize for designing a stamp commemorating the work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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