PROBABLY NEW YORK CITY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

This bicycle figure is thought to be depicting a participant in the Six-Day Bicycle Race, an endurance bike race established in 1891 and held at Madison Square Garden. It is possible that this figure might have hung in the rotunda of Madison Square Garden during the races (Elizabeth V. Warren, Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (New York, 2019), pp. 101-102.)