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Two Leg Tree. Axel Erlandson (December 15, 1884 – April 28, 1964) was a Swedish American farmer who shaped trees as a hobby, and opened a horticultural attraction in 1947 called "The Tree Circus", [1] advertised with the slogan "See the World's Strangest Trees Here". [2] The trees appeared in the column of Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not ...
Circus Sideshow is a large oil painting on canvas measuring 99.7 × 149.9 centimetres (39.3 × 59.0 in). Painted in the Divisionist style, the work employs pointillist dots of color (primarily violet-gray, blue-gray, orange, and green) and a play of lines governed by rules whose laws Seurat had studied. [4]
The Circus Museum, established in 1948, is the first museum of its kind to document the history of the circus. The museum has a collection of handbills, posters and art prints, circus paper, business records, wardrobe, performing props, circus equipment, and parade wagons. The adjacent Tibbals Learning Center contains The Howard Bros. Circus model.
In 1961 the Seal became the focus of the new Department Exhibit Hall, where it resides today in a glass enclosure. The enclosure remains locked at all times, even during the sealing of a document. [14] [15] [18] The seal can only be affixed by an officer of the Department of State, under the authority of the secretary of state.
In the circus performers, Picasso found a connection, as like himself, many of them were from Spain and experienced a transitory lifestyle that he had also experienced as a young man. [ 1 ] Family of Saltimbanques is a huge painting measuring 7 ft x 7.5 ft.
A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...
A Las Vegas family is stressing the importance of parental instincts after their 11-year-old Elijah Portillo collapsed in school. While his mom and dad knew something was wrong, doctors said ...
Guven Demir/Getty Images Stock image of a younger person holding the hand of an elderly person. Related: Brittany Snow Opens Up About Her Dad's Alzheimer's Diagnosis: 'He Was My Best Friend'