American Black Bear with Cubs

by Barry Kent MacKay

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$2,000

Dimensions

24.000 x 30.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

American Black Bear with Cubs

Artist

Barry Kent MacKay

Medium

Painting - Oil On Compressed Hardboard

Description

Most of my art features birds, but I love to paint other subjects, especially wildlife, including mammals. While my favourite mammals to draw and paint are the medium-small ones such as squirrels, rabbits, muskrats and so on, I have a passionate fondness for bears. This oil painting shows a mother American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) with two cubs (they can have one to four, very rarely five, even six). Regarding the name, “American” refers to the Americas, as this species lives in wooded and forested areas throughout most of North America, from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador, south as far as Mexico. The area not too far north of my home, central Ontario, is something of an epicentre for American Black Bears, where they are common. American Black Bears are omnivorous, eating anything humans might eat, and then some. Interestingly ant larvae can, at times, form a major component of the diet, and of course they love berries, all things sweet, including honey, and various tree nuts as well as other vegetative materials such as fresh grasses and tree buds. They can be predatory, and love fish. They have an incredible sense of smell, so can detect, and find, carrion, garbage and other foodstuffs from considerable distances. They will kill and eat other mammals, from mice and voles to young hoofed herbivores, especially sickly or abandoned young deer of various species. This oil painting is 30” X 24” and is on compressed hardboard.

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March 28th, 2021

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