The Fight

Edwin Willard Deming American
 Cast by Roman Bronze Works

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

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.

The Fight, Edwin Willard Deming (American, Ashland, Ohio 1860–1942 New York), Bronze, American

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The Fight, Edwin Willard Deming (American, Ashland, Ohio 1860–1942 New York), Bronze, American
The Fight, Edwin Willard Deming (American, Ashland, Ohio 1860–1942 New York), Bronze, American

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