Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dubbed “The Greatest Show on Earth,” the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was a force after the two acts merged in 1919.
In 1925, Alexander Calder joined the circus—in a sense. As an illustrator for the National Police Gazette, he was dispatched to cover the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at New York’s ...