From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rudy Wendelin
Rudy Wendelin
Rudolph "Rudy" Andreas Michael Wendelin (1910–2000) Wendelin designed several commemorative U.S.
was a United States Forest Service employee and the postage stamps. Among these were a Forest Conservation
best-known artist behind Smokey Bear. Beginning in stamp in 1958, a Range Conservation stamp in 1961, a
1944, Wendelin became the full-time artist for the stamp honoring John Muir in 1964, a stamp honoring
Smokey Bear campaign. He was considered Smokey John Wesley Powell in 1969, and a Smokey Bear stamp in
Bear’s "caretaker" until his retirement in 1973. 1984.[1]
Wendelin was born in Herndon, Kansas on February Wendelin received the Medal of Honor from the
27, 1910. He studied architecture at the University of Daughters of the American Revolution in 1998 for his
Kansas, and studied art at several art schools. He went to work on the Smokey Bear campaign.
work for the U.S. Forest Service in 1933 as an illustrator Wendelin was seriously injured in a car accident on
and draftsman. He served in the United States Navy dur- August 18, 2000, when a car driven by his daughter lost
ing World War II and returned to the Forest Service after control and collided with a truck and a highway divider.
the war. He completed hundreds of paintings of Smokey He died as a result of those injuries in a nursing home in
Bear. Falls Creeks, Virginia on August 31, 2000.[2]
References
[1] "Rudolph Wendelin: Designer of the 1964 John
Muir Commemorative Postage Stamp". San
Francisco, CA: Sierra Club.
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
frameindex.html?http://www.sierraclub.org/
john_muir_exhibit/stamps/. Retrieved 1 April
2010.
[2] Pearson, Richard (September 3, 2000). "Rudolph
Wendelin Dies at Age 90; Artist for ’Smokey’".
Washington, DC: Washington Post.
External links
• Inventory of the Rudolph Wendelin Papers, 1930 -
2005 in the Forest History Society Library and
Archives, Durham, NC
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Rudy Wendelin designed this 1964 U.S. commemorative stamp
honoring John Muir
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