The Fight
Edwin Willard Deming
ca. 1906 · Bronze · The American Wing
Deming based "The Fight" on the firsthand description by a Native American friend who had witnessed a brutal struggle between a mountain lion and a grizzly bear. The artist recorded the brief, intense moment when the massive bear bows under the agonizing impact of the clawing, biting animal. Deming, who frequently traveled to the American West, was fascinated by bears; his studio in New York’s MacDougall Alley was called the Lodge of the Eight Bears, after the name the Blackfoot had given him.
- Artist
- Edwin Willard Deming
- Date
- ca. 1906
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1907
