Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac and then there is the

and then there is the child next to a totem pole

He's been carefully hand-painted with a sweet face

with a couple of stray pencil marks on the lower part of the drawing

and the number 55631 written in pencil in the upper left corner

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

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac and then there is theThe 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