Skip to main contentDescriptionA mother bear and her four cubs walk up a snowy hillside. The mother is the largest and is in the center of the image. Two of the cubs are up ahead of her and she turns back towards the two that are behind her.
The Mountain Mother (Black Bear and Cubs)
Artist/Maker
William Herbert Dunton
United States, 1878 - 1936
Date1931
MediumLithograph
Dimensionsframe: 22 3/4 × 18 3/4 in. (57.8 × 47.6 cm)
image: 14 × 10 3/4 in. (35.6 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1990.005
ClassificationsPrint
InscribedBottom right reads, "Dunton of Taos"
Bottom left below image reads:
"The Mountain Mother
Black Bear and Cus No. 43"
Bottom right below image reads:
"W. Hubert Dunton, 1931
by V. E. Dunton
"Heart of the West Series"
On View
Not on viewRobert F. Kuhn
Ken Carlson
Charles Livingston Bull