Today's Treasure: Circus Sideshow Paintings

Inspired by vintage advertisements for circus side-show acts, Pennsylvania artist Joan Fay painted nearly 100 original canvas paintings in the manner of circus advertisements from the early19th century. 

 Some of the acts from circus of a bygone era were of talented performers who trained themselves to do things like breathe fire (see below) while others were the result of imagination and inventive costuming like the above act for a half man, half alligator....yikes!

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Today's Treasure; Circus Posters

These treasures are canvas paintings depicting actual circus posters of the early 20th century. 

 The advertisements often bragged of freaky sideshow acts like these. 

Pennsylvania artist Joan Fay created these one of a kind paintings for the American Treasure Tour

Today's Treasure: The Coyote Needs Help!

The American Treasure Tour features dozens of canvas paintings by Pennsylvania artist Joan Fay like the one pictured here:

She has put to canvas so many American memories! Our halls are lined with her circus paintings, looney toons, movie characters and various americana.