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Lot description
This is a set of two original bronze Grizzly Bear Bronze sculptures attributed to John Louis Clarke (1881-1970) from East Glacier Park, Montana. John L. Clarke was born to a Blackfeet and half Scottish father and a Blackfeet mother, who was the daughter of a Blackfeet Chief. At the age of two, Clarke came down with an illness of scarlet fever that left him deaf and mute. Later in life, he worked out of his studio in East Glacier Park, where he would create his carvings, sculptures, and paintings. The piece shows two solid bronze Grizzly Bears, a mother and cub set into a dark piece of burla setting style seen on a few other Clarke original examples. The pieces are not signed, but show the same manner of carving, shape, and style of other authentic examples and are truly thought to be an original. The sculptures measure overall 8.5 by 5.5 by 4.5.