Buckles Blog: Roger the Rosin Back #4

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Rosin Back-4, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: The paneled exterior wall elephant cars generally went out of favor by the late 1920s, RBBB being among the last to use them. Thereafter one typically saw the type of bull cars with exposed steel framing. It might date some of the influence on the artist to an earlier period, or perhaps a mixture of images that he'd collected or circuses personally experienced. It might also be a case of checking which trade press books about the circus were then readily available, at the time he made the artwork.; 24 August, 2008 13:18
Eric said...: Bernard Garbutt was hired as a staff artist by the Los Angeles Times right out of high school which would have been around 1918. Chances are he was sent out to cover circus appearances in L.A. during the 1920s. His old sketch books might have provided him with some of the drawings he used in ROGER THE ROSIN BACK.; 24 August, 2008 14:07

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