McCLUSKY C.T.

We know very little about the life of C.T McClusky apart from the fact that he was a clown in a circus. Between 1940 and 1960 he would have spent the winter time  in a boarding house in Oakland, California. He made 53 collages from recycled materials (cardboard from shirts, aluminum foil, string, photographic illustrations etc.). His images tell of his daily life, his travels and shows. This artwork was discovered in 1975 in an old tattered black suitcase by John Turner at the Alameda Penny Market Swap Meet in California.