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So You Wanna Get Married, Eh?
So You Wanna Get Married, Eh?

So You Wanna Get Married, Eh?

Artist/Maker William Holbrook Beard United States, 1824 - 1900
Date1886
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm) frame: 36 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (92.7 × 77.5 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1998.152
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned lower left
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThree bears stand under the shelter of a tree. One bear sits on a rock with his back facing the viewer, the other two bears approach the sitting bear side by side, standing on two legs and holding paws.
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