Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac Produced with local clayand decorated

Produced with local clayand decorated with brushes made of the hair of their children

as most I have in this style contain an interior compartment--usually concealed by a sliding top--for stashing snuff (ground tobacco

making me believe this may be the original from which his bronzes were made

and mouth (with teeth

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac Produced with local clayand decoratedThe connection between these two little bears is about the most tender thing I can imagine, expressed across every inch of this small sculpture, from the expressions on their faces, to the wrapped arms, to their lined up little toes! The piece is by Edwin Willard Deming (18601942), an artist best known for his depiction of scenes of Native Americans in the Southwestern U. S, among whom he lived for a part of each year for most of his life, and by whom