Q: Hi there, I was hoping someone at Apartment Therapy would be able to help me identify the bear print in this photo. It looks so familiar, but I can't place it. Please help?
Sent by Melanie
Source or Artist of Bear Artwork?
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Editor: Does anyone have a source or artist for Melanie?
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Hmmm i'm afriad it's a window
Run for cover!
view Senorita Puri's profile
No idea...
Where is that bedspread and pillow cover from?? I love it! I so want to snuggle up and take a nap in there....
view djs's profile
I feel like it's from a movie. It looks familiar to me as well.
view AndresDC's profile
Not sure, but as an artist who specializes in drawings / pen and ink, I can recreate something similar for you if you're interested! :)
view highsociety's profile
looks like himi kozue's paintings
though i'm not sure
http://himikozue.com/gallery.html
view katyatrofimova's profile
It reminds me of this work on Etsy. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33157043 Something I have marked as a fav, but don't know anything else about.
view Lemonade Sandwich's profile
I'd love to know about that bedspread, too.
view toreadora's profile
Maybe a Barry Moser wood engraving? Here is a lion:
http://www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pages/moser/Lion.htm
He has done lots of animals.
view brave little toaster's profile
It reminds me of a cover from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass:
http://www.darkmaterials.com/golart1.htm
The bear has the same quizzical look.
view casey31652's profile
Love it!!! Cute and modern. I also love the Snuffleupagus bedspread and pillow shams! Any info on these?
view jeffnyc's profile
It looks like a better version of Boog the bear from Open Season.
view series_of_hiccups's profile
I don't know the artist, but the room is by Wary Meyers - perhaps you could drop them a line?
http://warymeyers.com/interiordesign.m.html
view melanie's profile
Lemonade Sandwich, thank you!!! i followed your link a & checked out this artist, and i LOVE her work!! its cute without being too childish/girly/obnoxious :)
view Kpaige13's profile
The bedspread looks like a traditional "guber" or "kitenik" from the Balkans. It's made of wool and similar to a flokati rug though the pile is shorter.
view Chat Noir's profile
Melanie, I think this is your bear:
http://www.jmeader.com/drawings/pix/Bear.GIF
view catspajamas's profile
I think catspajamas may be correct, although the page linked to doesn't represent it well. I, too, am confident that I've this before, and on a regular basis. Was it in a movie? On a TV show? In the home a friend whose parents were into high end scandanavian design back in the 50s? I'm certain that all the other "duh, maybe its X" are quite wrong. Now wHere is it that we've seen it before....
view kushkush's profile
I've seen it, too. It's very familiar. This is going to drive us all crazy.
view Aulaire's profile
Lemonade Sandwich, I have that print! It's framed and hanging in my hallway, in amongst a gallery of family photographs. I love that bear.
view TammyE's profile
Going back a little from the link posted by catspajamas, you can see it's labeled as a drawing by Jonathan Meader (http://www.jmeader.com/drawings/index.html). He seems to have received several grants/awards and had shows around the world, so maybe the bear made its rounds that way? The drawing of the actual bear is definitely the same as in the photo - just the placement is off a little, so I don't know.
view ForfeitReality's profile