Object Record
Images
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2012.058.009 |
Object Name |
Carving |
Title |
Folk Art Farm Wagon |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Credit line |
Donated by John and Edna Vetter and family |
Year Range from |
1956 |
Year Range to |
1985 |
Artist |
Myers, George Louis |
Made |
Myers, George Louis |
Place of Origin |
Hanover, Grey County |
Description |
Folk art carving of a farm wagon. It is made of painted wood. The wagon is painted green, with black-trimmed red rails and wheels. There are two small step stairs on either side of the wagon's base. The horses pulling the wagon are painted, one black with white feet and blaze, and one brown with a white blaze. The manes and tails are made of inset hair, and their eyes and nostrils are painted red. Their black leather harnesses are tipped with decorative, tassel-like red tread. The carving is mounted on a rectangular, brown-painted wooden display board with gold trim. When it was found, the wagon held a carved sow and four carved piglets. See RELATED. |
Provenance |
Made by George Louis Myers in Hanover, Grey County. Dates to between 1956 and 1985. Belonged to George Louis Myers. He was born in Sullivan Township, Grey County on April 13, 1897. He was a son of Henry and Augusta Myers (née Drew), who farmed at Lot 17, Concession 4, Sullivan Township. He married Hilda Gateman on May 28, 1924, when he was twenty-six and she was nineteen. His family moved to Hanover, Grey County in 1956, where he began carving. He died on June 30, 1985 at the age of eighty-eight, and is buried in Hanover Cemetery. His son, Maurice H. Myers (1932-1969), was a friend of John Vetter. Last owned by John and Edna Vetter of Waterloo, Ontario, who inherited it in 1968. |
Collection |
Folk Art Collection |
Material |
Wood/Paint |
Found |
Ontario |
People |
Myers, George Louis |
Subjects |
Artists |
Search Terms |
Hanover |