Gerry Holzman, a master woodcarver, who conceived and toiled for 20 years to build a merry-go-round that celebrated New York State with riding animals like a beaver, a cow and a pig as well as portrait panels of citizens like Susan B. Anthony, Grandma Moses and Theodore Roosevelt, died on Dec. 8 at his home in Brunswick, Maine. He was 90.

The carousel, which is 36 feet wide and 23 feet high, was built with the help of about 1,000 volunteer carvers, woodworkers, painters and quilters.

It is a permanent and popular attraction at the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, NY.