Tony Sarg, known as "America's Puppet Master," was born in Guatemala in 1880 to a German father, who served his nation as a diplomat, and a British mother, who raised him. When Sarg was 7 ...

Norman Rockwell Museum presents Tony Sarg: Genius at Play, the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life, art, and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942) ...

It was an enormous balloon. The man behind the balloon — and what turned out to be an elaborate hoax — was Anthony “Tony” Frederick Sarg, an illustrator and puppeteer, remembered affection ...

Tony Sarg delighted children and adults, alike, with wondrous puppets: from the huge, other-worldly sea serpent that washed up on Nantucket’s shore in 1937 to the giant balloons bounding along ...