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A Limited
Edition Numbered Serigraph, handsigned by the artist, Gloria Swanson. It was
created for the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) in
1980 to accompany a UN stamp issue entitled "The United Nations Decade
for Women." The
Federation was proud to present this first day cover as yet another first for
Miss Swanson, her entrance into the field of philately. Her
design is an impressionistic painting in pastels which shows the earth in a
trail of blinding light streaking across the black infinity of deep space.
Conceptually, Miss Swanson is saying that earth is also a holy receptacle --
the surface of the continent and oceans subtly suggesting an embryo which has
begun to crystallize in its journey across the heavens. Written within the
print in the lower right hand corner by Ms. Swanson is the following quote:
"Woman, like Mother Earth, has an eternal rendezvous with spring." |
