Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID # |
1985.079.001 |
Object Name |
Carving |
Title |
Log Sled Carving |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Year Range from |
1959 |
Year Range to |
1981 |
Artist |
Brown, J. Erskine Horton |
Made |
Brown, Erskine |
Place of Origin |
Thornbury, Town of the Blue Mountains, Grey County |
Description |
Carving of a team of two brown horses pulling a logging sled. There is a carving of a man seated on top of the logs (he is painted with red clothing and cap). |
Provenance |
Made by wood carver James Erskine Horton Brown (Erskine Brown) of Derby Township/Thornbury, Grey County, sometime between 1959 and 1981. Last owned by the Owen Sound Public Library. It is unknown how it came to be there. |
Collection |
Folk Art Collection |
Material |
Wood/Leather/Paint/Metal |
Dimensions |
H-10.236 W-8.465 L-24.921 inches |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Brown, Erskine |
Subjects |
Logs Horses Sleds & sleighs |