Artist Carousel Horse School
Title The Parker 'Grand Jubilee' Carousel Horse
Media painted wood and mixed media
Dated ca.  1917
Size 32 x 52 x 11 in. / 81.3 x 132.1 x 27.9 cm.

Notes
total dimensions including post and plinth [79.5 X 16 X 28 inches]

Reference
This horse is from the 1917 Grand Jubilee Carousel which began it's history shorty before WWI in Leavenworth Kansas. Construction of the Carousel neared completion sometime WWI at a cost of $36,000 by some prisoners of war and possibly the young Dwight D. Eisenhower (according to the consignor). On July 2, 1925 the Carousel was installed in Ocean Park, California and in 1947 the machine was brought to Beverly Park, California where it remained for almost 34 years. In 1981, a $200,000 cosmetic restoration was completed and the Grand Jubilee found a temporary home on a sound stage at Walt Disney Studios where it was filmed in Disney's $15 million dollar movie Something Wicked This Way Comes. After its career as a movie star, the Grand Jubilee travelled to the grand opeining of Calaway Park in 1982. In 1986 the Carousel was sent to New York to Guernsey Auctions where it was split up and sold.

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$3,000-$4,000