Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac 6 3/8" x 4 3/8"

6 3/8" x 4 3/8" x 1 5/8"

There are a series of X's carved lightly into the exterior near the top on one side

and then there is the child next to a totem pole

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

and on the opposite is a nude Adam in a similar reclining pose

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac 6 3/8" x 4 3/8"The 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