Walking Grizzly

Artist/Maker John L. Clarke United States, 1881 - 1970

MediumBronze

Dimensions2 1/2 × 2 × 4 in. (6.4 × 5.1 × 10.2 cm)

Credit LineJoffa and Bill Kerr, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Object numberW2009.005

ClassificationsSculpture

Subject

BEAR

SignedSigned ""J. L. Clarke"

Inscribed'J.L. Clarke' on PL side of base. '©' on PR side of base and rear. 'CUTAPIUS' is engraved on top of base under PR side of bear. PL side of base "Three-quarters Blackfoot Indian, John Louis Clarke was early-deafened by scarlet fever ... He attended the Montana and North Dakota schools for the deaf, and had a little formal art education. He often signed his works with his Blackfoot name, Cutapuis — 'man who talks not.'"

On View

On view

DescriptionSculpture of a walking grizzly bear.