Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains 19th centiry Signed on the bottoms but

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

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

This one's in pretty good shape compared to most I've seen (the fact that these are usually quite battered speaks for itself

Just look at that pink

I view them as readymade painterly sculptures

Double Sided Canadian Folk Art Relief Carving: Strongman Victor DeLamarre + Birds and Mountains 19th centiry Signed on the bottoms butA 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