Polar Bear with Ringed Seal

by Barry Kent MacKay

Original - Sold

Price

$2,500

Dimensions

24.000 x 18.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

Polar Bear with Ringed Seal

Artist

Barry Kent MacKay

Medium

Painting - Oil On Compressed Hardboard

Description

The Polar Bear (Urus maritimus) is the largest (although it does overlap the largest of the “Kodiac” subspecies of the Brown (“grizzly”) bear), and most carnivorous, of the world’s eight bear species. While Polar Bears is iconic and source of concern as climate change removes the ice so essential for its survival, we should be similarly concerned about decline in the environment’s ability to support Ringed Seals, always assumed to be common, as well as significantly important to traditional needs of the Inuit. Male bears can access other sources of fat – the most important part of the Polar Bear’s diet, but for cub-bearing females the Ringed Seal, which also depends on ice for breeding, is essential. I’ve tried to symbolize all this in this oil painting, showing a Polar Bear in open water to represent the loss of ice in her habitat, eating a Ringed Seal, so named because of the ring-like markings on the pelage, just visible in the painting. The painting is in oils on compressed hardwood and is 18 by 24 inches. $2500.

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