Antique American Amusement Park Motorcycle Painted Carousel Carnival Ride 1940s Drawings & Prints The candlestick is in excellent

The candlestick is in excellent condition

with a personal gestural calligraphy informed by his knowledge of postwar American Abstract Expressionism and French Tachisme (from the French word tache

Like fellow Philadelphian watercolorist Edmund Darch Lewis

the Buddha's hands posed in a typical mudra/gesture

Antique American Amusement Park Motorcycle Painted Carousel Carnival Ride 1940s Drawings & Prints The candlestick is in excellentAntique American carnival amusement park, carousel motorcycle ride, from the late 1940s. A fabulous late 1940s motorcycle carousel ride, the motorcycle body is made of wood and is hand painted on both sides, on close inspection it seems to be the original paint & also most all of it remains, with some minor expected losses. The headlight & wheel guards are made of polished steel, the base is made of cast iron where the ride was bolted to the carousel.