Skip to main contentDescriptionTwo black bears face each other in the woods. Thick tree trunks can be seen behind the bears. Green grass. The scene is shaped by a white border which the scene fades into. Imperial Bowen Folio Edition. Plate 141.
American Black Bear
Artist/Maker
John James Audubon
United States, b. Santo Domingo, 1785 - 1851
Artist/Maker
John Woodhouse Audubon
United States, 1812 - 1862
Date1848
MediumHand-colored Lithograph
Dimensionsimage: 20 × 26 in. (50.8 × 66 cm)
frame: 36 × 40 1/2 in. (91.4 × 102.9 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.050
ClassificationsPrint
Inscribedplate 141
On View
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