Wood Carnival Art

Fairground ball-toss game England Circa 1910 Laughing clown in painted plaster and hessian with cast iron inner piping. Measures: 22.5” W x 9.25” D...

Hand painted game in original condition. The player would throw a ball at the target, which set off a mouse trap installed on the back in turn firing a piec...

Large primitive wooden blocks with beautiful patina and original paint.

Pierrot clown and portly chef with gaping open mouths.

Smaller type "portable" carnival bean toss game with three figures; a Frenchman on one end, an Asian looking gentleman on the other end, and a clown in the middle. all are wearing their period original clothing in excellent condition. The hand painted papier mâché faces are also in excellent and original hand painted condition; quite extraordinary considering they are waiting to be knocked down by a ball or a bean bag. The top canopy is hand painted blue and the thin curtain wood border is hand painted in red; there are some applied gold "stars" but most of them are missing (see image). This type of game would have been prevalent at carnivals during the turn of the century and later. The original brightly colored lithographed paper front, consists of an old lady and her black cat standing in the doorway; and two targets in place atop the painted picket fence with a garden behind. This is attached to a wood frame. This frame is also attached, in an easel like fashion, to another wood frame that folds down flat; a piece of string holds it on one side from opening all the way when it is put "in play". The French looking figure, in conjunction with the popularity of these carnival games...

Eight panel printed carnival screen, circa 1940. Large printed panels reproduce a whimsical, hand-painted scene of elephants and performers. Can be installed on the wall as a pain...

Original black, red and white paint with wood peg in the centre.

Two sided hand-painted on wood carnival or gaming wheel decorated with heart shaped openings and random star and floral painted patterns in green, red, and white on each side. Hand-p...

Three figures; a fish on each end and a Chinese man in the middle are waiting to be knocked down by the toss of a bean bag. This type of game would have been prevalent in carnivals d...

Four young boys are dressed up as rascals sitting on tree stumps ready to be knocked down by the throw of a ball and a direct hit. The young boys have hands clenched while one boy is holding a fish. This brightly colored late 19th century carnival game is in excellent original paint and is made of wood, with hand-painted "composition on wood" figures. The rich, predominantly green floral frame is also hand-painted on wood. Amazing to find in this original condition considering the rough play and abuse it would have gone through. I have thoroughly examined and black lighted the boy figures...

Carnival Lion. Region: American circa late 19th century. Material: Oil on a single plank of pine. Dimension: H 22” x W 16”. Condition: Overall Excellent, original surf...

Bejeweled and armored American carousel horse, an outside jumper made by C. W. Parker in Leavenworth, Kansas in the early part of the twentieth century, probably the mid-teens. A masterpiece of American carousel carving...