Inner-row Jumper - Low Down Trick
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Carver: Annetta LeClerc
Painters: Barb Kozak & Liz Malin
Size: 36" chest to rump
Status: finished
Sponsor: available
It is not uncommon for animals from various companies to appear on the same carousel. As replacements were needed, owners chose figures from a variety of sources. They were known as "mixed" machines and pictures indicate that PTC #40 was no exception to this practice. And so it was that Johnny Jones might well have purchased a C. W. Parker bucking bronco to ride his machine when it traveled to Alberta.
Low Down Trick was the first carousel horse designed by an Edmontonian, Sharon Abbott. Because of its complexity (it has 20 % more wood in it than a typical inside-row horse) it is fortunate that local carver, Annetta LeClerc, chose it to carve. Annetta is the only volunteer to date with experience carving large animals. Having attended a carving workshop in Oregon, where her instructor was a man who carves for the current Dentzel Carousel Company, Annetta is one of the few carvers who has used chisels and gouges extensively, most of the others having carved small animals and birds, using knives, files and small wood-burning tools.
Stippling, sponging, stencilling, and pinstriping are all skills that accomplished folk artists Barb Kozak and Liz Malin used to great advantage in painting Low Down Trick. Check out the stitching on the well worn saddle. Like the rest of the horse, isn't it fabulous?