Gallery
Stamp Quilt

© 1995 Ross Beecher Palmer and residents of Bailey Boushey House,
all rights reserved
Medium: Acrylic latex semi-gloss enamel with polyurethane clear-coat
Located at E. Madison St. & 14th Ave. on Capital Hill in Seattle

Bailey-Boushay House Project
Friends, partners, clients and staff at Bailey-Boushay House created this mural of 55 world-class postage stamps expressing love, creativity, wildlife and cultural diversity. Some of these postage stamps are true copies of real stamps, while others were created by individuals as stamps they’d like to see.

We at Bailey-Boushay House wanted bus riders to see the diversity of ideas and people that have painted these postage stamps. People, like stamps, each have there own individual beauty and interest. When placed next to each other to work together, they can add texture and spontaneity that create a larger over-all design

These stamps are like quilt blocks. Each person painted a stamp next to another stamp painted by someone else, both building and adding color and contrast to each others beauty and individualism by giving harmony, unity and balance to the whole creation.
--Artist Ross Beecher

Funding
This artwork was one of 13 murals commissioned by the Metro Arts Program in 1995.