1950s postage stamp watercolor, nautical stamp art, Franciscaines Missionnaires De Marie in Quebec. Miniature painting with stamps of two sailboats in the water with people in stick figure style. There are birds flying overhead and the colors of light hotsell blue,white, red/orange, yellow, brown and a seafoam blue are very soothing. Very fine art watercolor and postage stamp decoupage. Everything is hand painted, except the sails and part of the boats that is made out of old postage stamps. In the original frame gold wooden frame and covered in glass.
Signed on the painting F.M.M. Quebec and stamped on the back Franciscaines Missionaries de Marie .
Some info about this kind of art and the nunery, who had artists creating them. They made collages by cutting and shaping postage stamps of different colors and applying them on painted backgrounds. The unnamed artists were part of a group of Missionaries working at the House of the Franciscaine Missionaries on the Grande Allee in Quebec City. Some of them were nuns. There were some made and signed by the artist who made them but most were simply marked, F.M.M. Quebec. Sold as souvenirs, they were fundraisers for work in foreign missionaries.
Product code: 1950s Nautical Postage Stamp Watercolor Folk hotsell Art Decoupage