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Subject:Re: Japanese watercolor/gouache on silk Madonna and Child
Posted By: MPC Wed, Jun 11, 2014
Hello Tremain,
With all due respect, I believe the painting you provided a link to was done by Sister Teresa of the Carmelite Nuns in Tokyo during the 1960s. The painting style is very distinct and consistent with other examples you will find at the website link provided.
Rather than a date, I believe the number 22 refers to a series.
Sister Teresa was very prolific in these paintings of the Madonna, they were used to mass produce printed Christmas cards which were distributed to Carmelite convents throughout the world during the 1960s. Those nuns in turn would sell the Christmas cards every year locally as a fund raiser for the Carmelite Order.
As a youth in a Parochial grade school during the 1960s we were provided boxes of these cards by our Parish nuns and asked to help sell them.
Best regards,
MPC
URL Title :Japanese Madonnas
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