Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture Addison Miznersee 6" tall with legs down

6" tall with legs down

I've looked at a fair number of hand-sewn Humpty Dumpties

a silk weaver (canut)

I have not touched the copper insert but imagine it would polish up if desired

excepting a dark red dye used on the eye lids

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture Addison Miznersee 6" tall with legs downThe 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