Correos Cuba Folklore Artwork by Concepcion Ferrant

CORREOS CUBA on 26 January  2000 issued four First Day Cover stamps entitled Folklore. The stamps featured the artwork of Cuban artist Concepcion (Concha)  Ferrant.

The stamps included:

"Rumba Caliente." (shown on this maxim card) face value 10; 

"Cachumba." face value 15;

"En Casa de un Babalao." face value 65;

"Tata Cunengue." face value 75.

Concepcion (Concha)  Ferrant was born on 28 February 1882 and studied at the San Alejandro Academy. Over lifetime she won prizes, certificates, medals and proved that a woman could paint as well or even better than her male colleagues.

The themes of Concha's oil paintings were mainly Cuban and European landscapes and Afro-Cuban elements. 

She won a competition for a position as a professor of artistic anatomy at the Academy of San Alejandro. She lived with great simplicity, dedicated to teaching, transmitting her knowledge with exemplary modesty to all who approached her in search of advice or an authoritative opinion.

"Beloved Daughter of Guanabacoa", a work for which she was awarded in 1943, is the same town where she died at age 87, on 27 May 1969.