Paul Jung
by Barbara Keith
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Title
Paul Jung
Artist
Barbara Keith
Medium
Drawing - Colored Pencil On Grey Matboard
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* NOTE: 08-22-22, 6x8 Print, Mat and Frame Sale to Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
Paul Jung (1900-1965) is perhaps one of the world’s most recognizable clowns (albeit as an anonymous face), coming second only after his famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey colleague, Lou Jacobs. During and after Jung’s lifetime, his distinctive, happy clown persona appeared on many commercial ads—most notably on the boxes of Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks—and has been often used on European circus posters as a generic clown image.
Paul Jung was born March 18, 1900 in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Paul and Mary Young, who were already in show business. Young Paul debuted on stage at age eight, performing an acrobatic dancing act with his brother on the vaudeville circuit. He joined the Ringling Bros. Circus in 1917, when he was seveteen years old, working there as an acrobat, and he remained with the show when the Ringling brothers combined it with the Ringling-owned Barnum & Bailey Circus the following year. He would be working for the Ringling organization, with The Greatest Show On Earth and other Ringling-owned circuses, for nearly half a century (circopedia.org).
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