Eight Bears: A Biography of E.W. Deming, 1860-1942
Oklahoma City, OK: Griffin Books, 1978. Hardcover. Brown leatherette boards with tan/red lettering. Butter-yellow dj with bear illus. and brown/red lettering. xiv, 145 pp. 21 color, 69 bw plates. VG-/Fair (Clean, bright, tight but for stamp of NY gallery owner on title page; dj chipped/torn at edges; lightly soiled; and with gallery owner's lib. sticker on lower spine). Item #3399
Deming was a friend and peer of contemporary artists Frederic Remington and Charles Schreyvogel. He also lived with the Native Americans for a part of each year of most of his life and made his living painting them. Almost all of his subject matter is related to American Indians, who gave Deming the name, Eight Bears. Numerous plates, bibliography, checklist of works.
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