Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture sampler with a plate of glass

with a plate of glass covering the cross-stitch

where they have been made since the 1500s

is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art

It is unmarked

and furniture

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture sampler with a plate of glassThe 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