Merry-Go-Round

Merry-Go-Round, 1928

Alice Beard

Oil on canvas
32 1⁄4 × 39 1⁄4 inches

Signed and dated (lower left): ALICE BEARD /1928

Provenance

Rifkin-Young Fine Arts, New York, 1992
Private collection, Sanford, Florida, 1995

The current example may have been one of Beard’s entries in the 1928 exhibition as An American Holiday. The thick outlines, bright palette, and expressive faces of the figures show her illustration training while the subject invokes a sense of whimsy and carefree leisure.

Exhibited

  • (possibly) National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, 1928 as An American Holiday
  • Hagerstown, Maryland, Washington County Museum of Art, Neville-Strass Collection, 2003, p. 14, illus.
  • Tequesta, Florida, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, A Woman’s Eye, 2007