Details

Title

Bear Cub Grooming

Artist/Maker

Paul Wayland Bartlett (American, 1865–1925)

Date

1887, cast 1932

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

9 1/2 x 9 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter, III

Accession #

58.24 B

On View

Currently not on view

Paul Wayland Bartlett was the son of the well-known sculptor, critic, and teacher Truman H. Bartlett. Determined that his son would be educated abroad, the elder Bartlett sent him to Paris. There he became fascinated by the popular genre of animal sculpture and eventually worked for sculptor Georges Gardet, who specialized in this field. This sculpture of a bear cub playfully scratching his ear is a reduced figure taken from Bohemian Bear Tamer, a life-size figure group by Bartlett.

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