"My grandfather and his brother joined the circus in the 1900s. My father painted the sideshow freaks before he left to paint signs for the Coca-Cola Co. He used to take us to the circus and ...

“When you pull up into Circus Circus, it looks old, right? You’ve got paint chipping, you’ve got different kinds of stuff that just needs a real facelift,” Gerety said about plans to ...

His close connection to the world of the circus was to feature throughout his creative work. He came to the world of painting through meeting Swiss painter Hans Falk and later befriend the sculptor ...