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Thomas Blackshear is an African-American artist many of whose paintings adorn Evangelical churches. He is also a sculptor and a designer of ornaments often of African American themes.Blackshear designed illustrations for numerous postage stamps issued by the United States Postal Service (USPS) including four in the Black Heritage stamp series: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Scott # 2249 issued February 20 1987 James W.