Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture fertility doll fabric (in a great array

fabric (in a great array of colorful prints

with a pronounced rounded lip

and decidedly non-fierce

and stuffed with what I believe are beans

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture fertility doll fabric (in a great arrayThe connection between these two little bears is about the most tender thing I can imagine, expressed across every inch of this small sculpture, from the expressions on their faces, to the wrapped arms, to their lined up little toes! The piece is by Edwin Willard Deming (18601942), an artist best known for his depiction of scenes of Native Americans in the Southwestern U. S, among whom he lived for a part of each year for most of his life, and by whom