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"Blackout"
Giclée canvas print:
24" x 36", s/n
A/P #3 - $1,545
(from an acrylic painting)

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Unframed print - $1,545 +
$25 handling/shipping = $1,570

The year is 1895, when black bear was the most common North American big game outside of whitetail deer. Today it is still wide spread in Canada and the northern states, but three states in the south; Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have declared it a threatened species.

Black bears are mainly nocturnal, although they can be found abroad most times of the day. Even in these early days before black bear became accustomed to human garbage, they would be found raiding hunters’ camps, particularly in the more remote locations. A camp became a welcome, easy food source, especially when the hunters were away. Theodore Roosevelt wrote of instances in the late 1800s where bears would occasionally visit hunters’ camps “playing havoc and devouring everything edible, specially if sweet, and trampling into a dirty mess whatever they do not eat.”

In my painting the camp residents have momentarily left the pots cooking on the fire but before they can return, an inquisitive bear comes out of the twilight shrouded forest and may well sample the simmering venison.


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