Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains 19th centiry I view them as readymade

I view them as readymade painterly sculptures

Just lovely things

Signed on the bottoms but I can't make out the signature

Small cards 2 1/2" x 1 3/4"

who also looks a but as if she might be wearing an officer's cap

Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains 19th centiry I view them as readymadeA wonderful portrait of an underdog, and some charming birds, too. Canadian champion strongman Victor Delamarre, portrayed on one side of this painted, relief carved plaque, was a mild mannered, 5 ft. 4" Montreal policeman, who surprised everyone with his strength. Born in 1888, one of 13 children, Delamarre developed much of that strength while working on a farm as a lumberjack, and went on break Louis Cyr's record of pressing 309. 5 pounds. . Here