Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001860The Soul of Contentment (Black Bear)
Inscriptions
Signed on right side of base: "Edward Kemeys 1886"
Exhibition history
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925, Dec. 18, 2013–Apr. 13, 2014, cat. 24; Denver Art Museum, May 9–Aug. 31, 2014; China, Nanjing Museum, Sept. 29, 2014–Jan. 18, 2015 (New York and Denver only).
Publications
George Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture, part 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 78, cat. 931. Thayer Tolles, et al., The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013), cat. 24.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edward Kemeys (American, 1843–1907)
- Date
- Modeled 1886, cast 1886–99
- Medium
- Bronze with black patina
- Dimensions
- 26.7 × 35.6 × 25.4 cm (10 1/2 × 14 × 10 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Margaret S. Watson
- Accession no.
- 1899.45
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