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Another wonderful piece to celebrate #WorldTurtleDay 🐢 during #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻:
Randy Chitto (Choctaw, b.1962)
#Turtle Storyteller with #Bear Hide
Ceramic sculpture, H 10 1/8 inches (25.7 cm)
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Turtle-Storyteller-with-Bear-Hide/908DD6475EBA218C35AF0D8C545E5E3D
"Randy's artistic journey primarily centers around the turtle, symbolizing the Choctaw's storytellers, and the bear, representing the strength and courage of the male facet of the tribe."
https://randychitto.com/bio

official auction photo of the object, front view on gradient grey-black background: blackware ceramic sculpture depicting a turtle storyteller (sitting upright with mouth open as if speaking) dressed in a bear hide, surrounded by small turtle children listening to it talk

For #WorldTurtleDay 🐢 during #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻:
Roy Thomas (Anishinaabe, 1949-2004)
#Bear and #Turtle
acrylic on paper, 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 in
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Bear-and-Turtle/A03391A83F97E7C6645B1B2FAB0C0A45
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

First Nations painting in the modern Woodlands School style depicting a bear riding on top of a turtle, with artist signature visible bottom right

For #WatercolorWednesday + #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻:
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
#Bear and Canoe, 1895
watercolor & gum arabic over graphite pencil on cream-colored wove paper
14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Brooklyn Museum 11.541: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2749

watercolor painting, landscape orientation, depicting a bear scratching at an overturned canoe in a mostly barren landscape, with an overall sepia toned color composition

For #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻:
George Catlin (American, 1796-1872)
Portraits of a Grizzly Bear and Mouse, Life Size, 1846-1848
oil on canvas, 26 5⁄8 x 32 1⁄2 in. (67.5 x 82.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery 1985.66.603: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/portraits-grizzly-bear-and-mouse-life-size-4322

“George Catlin included two grizzly bears in the eight tons of material for his Indian Gallery that he brought to England in 1839. But the bears were destructive pests and Catlin eventually sold them to London’s Zoological Gardens in October, 1840. European audiences had to content themselves with life-size portraits such as this, in which the presence of a familiar, if bold, little mouse establishes the bear’s huge size.”

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 + #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻:
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (Flemish, c.1520-c.1590)
Fable of the #Bear and the #Bees
Bruges, 1567
print, etched & hand-colored, H 95 mm × W 112 mm
Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-70: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1996-70

color illustration
"A bear near three beehives. He was stung by a bee and in his anger caused one of the hives to fall over. He is therefore attacked by the bees that swarm from the fallen hive. It is better to accept things passively than to seek revenge and suffer more."

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 + #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻:
John Bucknell Russell (Scottish, 1819–1893)
The #Bear and the #Beehives
oil on canvas, H 149.2 x W 73.5 cm
National Trust for Scotland, Haddo House 79.1.2
via Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bear-and-the-beehives-196834/

oil painting, long vertical composition, depicting a brown bear outside in an apiary eating honeycomb out of a broken beehive while being swarmed by the bees

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 + #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻 (AND #MedievalMonday + #ManuscriptMonday !): a medieval Winnie the Pooh?
from Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue & of Custom)
N. Italy, 2nd quarter 15th c.
British Library Harley 3448 f. 10v
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=2438

miniature painting from a medieval illuminated manuscript, illustration of a brown bear by a table with two beehives being swarmed by the bees

@𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗼𝗼
We have a feeling you'll be seeing more of these two pretty soon... 😉 #BearAwarenessWeek

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∙ 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟸, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟽:𝟷𝟿𝙿𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/phillyzoo/status/1660787440502689801

#zoo #animals #phillyzoo

Fun find for #BearAwarenessWeek at the Mercer Museum:
Mechanical #Bear on a Tree
Germany, c.1895-1905
Fur, metal, wood, h. 26.4 in.
Mechanical bear toy (key wind-up) with “clockwork nodding” head. From the “Animals on the Loose: A Mercer Menagerie” exhibit in the children’s room.

photo of the object I n display case in the children’s room at the Mercer Museum (part of the “Animals on the Loose” exhibit) Mechanical bear in a tree toy (key wind-up) with ‘clockwork nodding’ head, perched on a wooden tree attached to a wooden base.

riddle on lift-up signage: “Kids used to wind me with a key, but I would rather climb a tree! WHAT AM I?”

riddle answer underneath: “A child's wind-up toy. I was made in Germany. Kids loved watching my head bob up and down. My mouth opened and closed, too!”

For #ManuscriptMonday + #BearAwarenessWeek: a #medieval Winnie the Pooh?

#Bear & Beehive, miniature from Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue and of Custom)
Northern Italy (Padua?), c. 1425-50
British Library Harley 3448 f. 10v

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=24383

miniature painting from a medieval illuminated manuscript depicting a brown bear surrounded by five flying bees while sitting on the ground near a beehive on a table

Bears! #BearAwarenessWeek !
I wanna be sweet to my bear friends.

#BearAwarenessWeek

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