Saturday, July 15, 2006

John Pawling Circus 1949 #3


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that a sun bear?

Anonymous said...

Somebody help us here. On the left, it's hard to tell what we have behind that mesh. The black animal's outine suggests a giant sloth.

The excellent work on the wagons points out once again the difference between a townie sign painter and a show painter, like the fabled Yellow Burnett. Wonder whose work this was?

GaryHill said...

Looks like an anteater to me?

Down the Road by Jim said...

I've been wondering about it too -- it looks big , and facing to the left ,if that's it's head -- it almpst looks like it has only two legs,or is standing up on it's hind legs.

Anonymous said...

Vote for the Sun Bear. Looks like the right size for a little, bow-legged bear and the were imported by dealers for time to time.

For Roger S. Dick McGraw inherited a young sun bear along with a few lions and a cheetah in an act he took over at the St. Louis Zoo. The bear didn't last long.