Circus,+The

Date: 1971
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.65.108_1a.jpg?itok=-U9lerLQ width="290" height="289" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/the-circus-8211"]] || Title: **The Circus**

Artist: **Albina Felski** Born: Fernie, British Columbia, Canada 1916 Died: 1996

Medium: acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 1/4 in. (122.0 x 122.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1986.65.108 || Albina Felski often took almost a year to complete one painting, carefully working from the top to the bottom of a large canvas without making any sketches. This painting shows a chaotic eight-ring circus with almost every imaginable act taking place simultaneously, from dancing bears and trapeze artists to an animal tamer in a cage full of leopards. Felski was probably inspired by a childhood trip to the circus, and managed to cram all of her colorful, jumbled memories into one painting.
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