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Photo by John Bentham.
The Bear
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1921 – 2006)
Date1970
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 15 × 11 in. (38.1 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Arthur S. Thompson, Class of 1940
Object number1997.6.1
Not on view
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Provenance 1997: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Arthur S. Thompson.
Markings Blind stamp on verso at lower right: [logo; circle inscribed in open, rounded rectangle]
Signature Initialed in pencil at lower left: KA
Inscribed Editioned in pencil on recto at lower right: 213/300; inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: 120513
Conversation
Conversation
Karel Appel
Date: 1960
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1984.56
Toi et Moi (You and Me)
Toi et Moi (You and Me)
Karel Appel
Date: 1963
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1984.57
Untitled
Untitled
Karel Appel
Date: 1960
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.58
Photo by John Bentham.
The Bear Dance, plate 18 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.121
Photo by John Bentham.
Attacking the Grizzly Bear, plate 19 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.122
Another Outrage at the Pole (Poll)---The British Lion Bear-Dozed, from "Harper's Weekly"
Another Outrage at the Pole (Poll)---The British Lion Bear-Dozed, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 16, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.355
Photography by David Revette.
Bear with Predella from the "Rubber Stamp Portfolio"
Don Nice
Date: 1976 (published 1977)
Medium: Rubber stamp on paper
Object number: 2003.12.5.8
Animal Types at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris: Polar bear begs a little something from visitors to the zoo.
Animal Types at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris: Polar bear begs a little something from visitors to the zoo.
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.200
Dave Revette
Ours debout No. 2 (Standing Bear, No. 2)
Antoine-Louis Barye
Date: first cast c. 1874
Medium: Bronze with dark brown patina with green and black undertones
Object number: 1994.19
Sick Bear with Nurse
Sick Bear with Nurse
Christophe Fratin
Date: c. 1850 CE
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1994.20
Vagabond Bear Grabbing a Wolf
Vagabond Bear Grabbing a Wolf
Christophe Fratin
Date: 19th century
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1994.25
a. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 10 times. b. Rhamnus purshiana (Californian Bear-berry), young shoot enlarged 25 times. c. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 10 times.
a. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 10 times. b. Rhamnus purshiana (Californian Bear-berry), young shoot enlarged 25 times. c. Equisetum hiemale (Winter Horsetail), enlarged 10 times.
Karl Blossfeldt
Date: 1929
Medium: Rotogravure
Object number: 2009.2.4