A blank notecard featuring Sally Mayer Seidl’s original painting, Poppies in Leningrad. Central to the theme of Poppies in Leningrad is the appropriation of Viktor Bulla’s haunting photograph, Pioneers of Leningrad in a defense drill, 1937. Bulla’s photo, taken just 4 years before the Siege of Leningrad, was intended to showcase the pride of the well-equipped young fighters—many of whom would later die in that siege. In the painting, the photograph is overlaid with a poppy field. Poppies were often depicted as the flowers of the dead in antiquity, as they were associated with endless sleep. The painting reminds us of the cycle of nature and the impending doom these young men were to face.

Details

· A2 notecard (4.25” x 5.5”) with a white envelope

· Printed on archival cardstock with professional grade, archival ink

· Packaged in a clear protective sleeve

· Designed and printed in the USA