4" Diving Bear by Moe Pootoogook *Bronco* paintings

4" Diving Bear by Moe Pootoogook *Bronco* paintingsInuit art: Dancing (Diving) Bear Inuit Artist: Moe Pootoogook Size: 4" across, 3" high Community: Cape Dorset, NU 12 24 Stone: Serpentine id: dfa N6386Sbejy **This Item is Eligible for Our 0% Interest Layaway Plan. INCREDIBLE MOVEMENT! BRONCO is balancing himself on his arms and kicking like a bronco with his legs! Dancing bears who are holding themselves on their arms are also referred to as Diving bears for obvious reasons. Moe is a veteran carver

only possible by a master carver

this sculpture brings to mind the work of the Nunavut Master Carvers Jimmy Iqaluq

In the art world

ON (illustrated catalogue)

then from my perspective

Released in the 2011 Cape Dorset Prints Spring collection

Olive is an Inukshuk extraordinaire

Every one of his bears

I gasped when I first saw Glowing Ember

Like all of Bruneau’s Inukshuks

but then he began drawing and after working as an assistant printmaker for the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset

It takes a very skilled and experienced artist to Artists who can carve these bears because of the difficulty balancing the piece