Victor Stabin

The United States Postal Service has hired Stabin to design a number of stamps. He created a Henry Mancini stamp in 2003 which led to him being hired again in 2005 this time to create four of the American scientists series stamps: physicist Richard Feynman, thermodynamicist Willard Gibbs, geneticist Barbara McClintock and mathematician John von Neumann.[4][5] He was again hired by the USPS in 2008 and created the artwork for stamps depicting four more American scientists—theoretical physicist John Bardeen, biochemist Gerty Cori, astronomer Edwin Hubble and chemist Linus Pauling.[4]

Stabin has created a number of paintings entitled The Turtle Series which includes Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Fish Ferris Wheel, and his most recent work, Hatchlings.[6]

Stabin has also authored a book called Daedal Doodle which features illustrations and alliterations created by the artist. This work, published in 2011, has been used by Stabin as a teaching tool in a number of schools.[2] Susan Orlean of The New Yorker described it as "original and sly", while Leonard Lopate of WNYC Radio called it, "a visual stunner with delightful definitions". NPR commentator and University of Pennsylvania professor Jeremy Siegel said that looking at the book reminded him of the first time he saw the work of M.C. Escher."[6] A monthly version of ''Daedal Doodle is published in ICON under the title "Alliteration of the Month".[7]

Stabin and his wife, Joan Morykin,[8] renovated a 15,000-square-foot, 170-year-old, former factory building in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Now called the Stabin Morykin Building, it includes the Victor Stabin Gallery, an art workshop space, and Cafe Arielle restaurant.[9] The galleries currently house the work of Stabin as well as that of his students.