With paint, brush, and sandpaper ... People were willing to pay as much as $100,000 or more to have a carousel horse, lion, or giraffe in their home. Faced with the choice of running their ...

and his painting duties vary as he works on projects both large and small, one of his main objectives each year is repainting and touching up the wooden horses of Idlewild's famous carousel.

This column on the art of the carousel is in response to readers who asked how volunteers actually carved the horses on the Berkshire Carousel. Figure carving for carousels became a lost art in 1930.

one of the few carousel restoration companies in the U.S. The team working on the lead horse made a remarkable discovery. Underneath decades-old paint jobs, they discovered a signature belonging ...

Kingsport Cultural Arts unveiled the Carousel Horse Brigade — a special community art project to celebrate the 10th birthday of the Kingsport Carousel.

The carousel can’t just be rebuilt in a field somewhere. It’s old, wooden and delicate; the wooden horses are cracked, and their paint is chipped. Restoring the ride to its former glory means ...

While completing the touch up work, she composed a series of black and white sketches of the horses along with her first carousel painting. “My teacher said, ‘Oh, you have a Picasso style ...

Under fresh paint, dents on the carousel platform ... name of a donor or a loved one was affixed to the carousel platform beside the selected horse, and on a plaque on the wall of the pavilion.

I was approached by the Mid Nebraska Community Foundation, and they said they had some money they wanted to use to improve the carousel. At that point, I thought the paint on the horses was ...

PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire Carousel’s horses may yet run again ... In a 2023 Eagle column, he described it resting on a refurbished 1928 frame with a state-of-the-art computerized control system, and ...