Object Record
Images
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2012.058.003ab |
Object Name |
Carving |
Title |
Carving of a Well Digger |
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 well-digging rig (a) pulled by a detachable team of two horses (b). The horses are painted black with white feet and blazes, and have red eyes and nostrils. They have inset manes and tails, and each has a red thread tassel on its leather harness. The frame of the well-digging rig is painted red. There is a miniature, carved, green and black-painted gasoline engine on the wheeled area at one end. The rig has two pulley belts, one of which is made of leather, and one of which is made of cord. |
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/Paints/Metal/Leather/Hair/Cord |
Found |
Ontario |
People |
Myers, George Louis |
Subjects |
Hanover, Ontario Artists |