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Muscular Dystrophy Association – 2007 Houston Telethon
Auction Ends: Sep 6, 2007 09:00 PM CDT

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Willaim Holbrook Beard's "The Bears Dancing" Framed Artwork

Item Number
MR406
Estimated Value
300 USD
Sold
50 USD to mallozzigift
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

Enjoy this beautiful framed print by William Holbrook Beard (1825-1900).  Beard specialized in satirically guising businessmen, scientists and politicians as animals. "The Bear Dance" is his spoof of conservative financial investors-symbolized by bears-celebrating a profitable business day. Self-taught, Beard painted portraits and a wide variety of other subjects, but his humorously anthropomorphized squirrels, rabbits, cats, monkeys and, especially bears, are his most popular subjects.
Disappointed that he didn't see more buffalo or wildlife during a 1866 train trip West, and discouraged by the monotony of the landscape, Beard turned to his imagination to nourish his love of nature. The resulting witty mockery of animals succumbing to human foibles-often drunkenness and infidelity-were met with acclaim, as well as outrage from conservative organizations, the very targets of his ridicule.
It was told that a reproduction of it hangs in the nurseries of many babies born to those who work on Wall Street. But junior needn't know about the bulls and bears just yet -- like many viewers, small children might mistake this scene for a teddy bear picnic. This painting is also known as The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Stock Market and The Wall Street Jubilee.27.00

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