Portrait Bears by Bev White

Portrait Bears®

Bears Created by Bev White

IN THE BEGINNING….

In 1991 when I was in Baltimore giving a talk about how I create a Portrait Bear, I pulled a man from the audience and drew him as a bear.

1990
Just Charlie
28” tall - OOAK
My First Portrait Bear won the gold!
Best Of Show at the
1991 Timonium, MD Convention
Purchased for the Fort Myers, FL Teddy Bear Museum (now closed).

1990
The Flag Bearers

30" tall - OOAK

1990
George, Martin and Theodore
30" tall - OOAK
Patchwork mohair bears.

1990
Just Charlie
28” tall - OOAK

1993-4
Stan and Ollie
15" tall - LE 75 sets
Licensed and made by Bev over

a 2 year period

1992
Laurel and Hardy
30” tall - OOAK
Disneyland Auction piece.

1992
WC Fields
27" tall - OOAK

1993
Teddy Salutes Steiff
Richard and his Teddy
27" tall - OOAK

McBear

McD Hamburgler

McD Grimace

McD Fry Guys

1993

McBear - Ronald Mc Donald
30" tall - OOAK
Philadelphia McDonald House Auction

1994
General George Washington
30" tall - LE 3

1994
T.R. Inaugural
President Roosevelt
30" tall - OOAK

1994 to 96
Teddy Roosevelt Editions

Original prototypes

1994-1996
Trilogy Portrait Bears
30" tall - prototype

Statesman, Roughridge, Hunter

1994
Sir Winston
30“ tall - OOAK
Plus 18” tall prototype- LE 7 for Bears of Whitney, UK

1994
The Statesman
President Roosevelt
30” tall, prototype
plus LE 3

1995
Yogi
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears
16" tall - LE 1000

1995
BooBoo
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears
8" tall LE 1000

1994-96
The Rushmore Bears
The four Presidents of Mt. Rushmore
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt & Lincoln.
30" tall – Four Prototypes pictured

1994-96
The Rushmore Bears
The likeness of the four Presidents carved
into Mt. Rushmore
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt & Lincoln.
30” tall, prototype plus LE 3

1994
General George
LE 15

Gentleman George
15" tall

Jerfferson
15" tall

Lincoln
15" tall

1994
TR Statesman
15" tall - LE 15

1995-96
Thomas Jeffers
President Jefferson
30” tall, prototype plus LE 3
A Mt. Rushmore Bear

1995
The Berryman Bear
OOAK
Auction piece for Berryman's auction, Japan

1995
Honest Abe
President Lincoln
30” tall, prototype plus LE 3

1999
Safari T.R.
Smithsonian
15” tall LE 25

1996
Safari TR and Lyin’
30” tall portrait bear
19” tall Lyin’ bear OOAK
Disney World Auction Piece

1997-8
The Protector

18" tall - Open Edition
Designed by Bev White
Produced by The Franklin Company

1997
Little White Dove

18" tall
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Franklin Mint. Very few of these are in circulation.
Production was stopped when they could not produce a satisfactory reproduction.

1996-7
The Duke

18" tall - Open Edition

The Duke

1998
Emmett Kelly Portrait of a Clown
18“ tall Prototypes
Produced by Cooperstown Bears LE 1000

Toby Winner and TeddyBear&Friends
4/1998 Cover

1998
Smokey
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears
18" tall - LE 888

1998
Grand Pa Theodore and Emily

30" tall OOAK

Museum Commission Bear

Words of wisdom from Grand Pa . . .

“Believe you can and you’re

halfway there”

1998
Laurel and Hardy
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears
12" tall - L.E. 2000

1999
Uncle Sam
20" tall - OOAK

1999
Smithsonian Safari T R
15" tall - LE 25

1999
W.C. Fields
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears
14" tall - L.E. 888

W.C. Fields

2000
Tiny the Harley Davidson Bear.
3 prototype bears 18” tall were produced for Franklin Mint.
No production.

2000
Tiny
Designed by
Bev White

2000
Annie
Annie 18" and Sandy 7" tall
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears
LE 488

2000
Teddie the TR Boy
18” tall LE 25
Teddy Bear Centennial

2001
Chaplin On Roller Skates
18” tall - OOAK
Exclusive for the Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

2001
Gandhi
30” tall - OOAK
Exclusive for The Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

2001
The Oath
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown Bears- 14" tall - LE 888

2001

TR Berryman Roughrider

18” tall OOAK
Portrait Bear of the famous cartoon
Exclusive for the Japan
Relief Auction piece.

2001
Elvis
18” tall - OOAK
Exclusive for The Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

The Cooperstown release for Sept. 2001 kicks-off a year of celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the teddy bear. The premiere edition
of the BEAR LEGENDS COLLECTION, it is entitled The Oath, Celebrating 100 years of Teddy.

This piece portrays the event in which
Vice-President Roosevelt first took his Oath of Office on September 14th, 1901 in Buffalo N.Y., following the assassination of President McKinley. T.R. Portrait Bear stands on a library floor with his right paw upheld, taking the Oath of Office, in his "borrowed" clothes.

Each bear has a small piece of a vest which was truly worn by Theodore Roosevelt, sewn onto its paw.

2001
The Beatles, The “Mopheads”
18” tall bears - OOAK
Exclusive for The Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

2001
Van Gogh
Self portrait parody
30” Bear Bust - OOAK
Exclusive for the Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

2001
Mona Lisa
30” tall bear bust - OOAK
Exclusive for the Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

2000 -2001

The Creation
Michelangelo Parody
OOAK of (2)-27” bears, (3)-12” angel bears.
Exclusive for the Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea
The backdrop was painted by a museum artist.

2001

Marty McFly
The Time Traveler

Museum Mascot Bear
18” tall Marty McFly bears were created for various diorama displays within the Jeju Museum in South Korea

2001
Marty Mcfly
30” Marty with Bev is an OOAK

2001
Napoleon
26” tall - OOAK
Exclusive for The Jeju Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea

2004

Mona Lisa Portrait Edition

LE of 7 Full body, Jointed 18” bear holding her frame

2006
American Gothic Parody
30” tall bears OOAK
Grant Wood painting

2008
The Scream
OOAK - Parody of The Cry
by Munch 1893

2006
Sir Winston
Designed by Bev White
Produced by Cooperstown

18" tall - LE 888

2010

Noah & His Ark

30-inch OOAK

President Obama in the Hawaiian Teddy Bear Museum

2010
Obama Bear
President Obama
6’ tall - OOAK
For the Hawaiian Museum

2010
Obama Bear
President Obama in the Oval Office of the White House.
as exhibited in the Hawaiian Museum

2010 Obama Bear
6’ tall - OOAK
For Hawaiian Museum

Reception

How Bev Created the Life-size Obama bear

It all started with a trip to Germany to find the right furs.

Schulte had meters and meters of fur.

My Imagination Work-board
and pattern-making.

<<<--- Look close.

Yes!
He’s even got the wart on his nose!

Every detail was meticulous added.

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Mike made a custom wood box to ship the life-size Obama bear to Hawaii

Obama now resides in Korea's JeJu Bear Museum

We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

Barack Obama

Honoring his namesake at the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, PA

Benevolent Benjamin
30” tall OOAK

Visiting the Liberty Bell

Taking a memory stroll by Carpenter’s Hall, where
the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Ben could never resist a ride
in a carriage with a pretty girl!

Visiting with his admirers everywhere!

2011

Benevolent Benjamin
27” tall - OOAK
2012 TOBY People’s Choice
Now lives in Florida

2011
Valley Forge George
30” tall - OOAK
He now lives in Michigan

2011
Jack Nicholas
The Golden Bear
30” tall - OOAK
For H.O.P.E. Charity Auction

2017
President Trump
31" tall - OOAK
“Make America Great Again”
hand gesture.

2012
Ike Salutes
30” tall - OOAK

2011
Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles Parody
Ringo, George, Paul and John
18” tall OOAK/set of 4

URSA Awards Winner

Creating the Girl With Pearl Portrait

2014
Being: the Girl with Pearl Portrait

2014
Girl with Pearl

2014
Girl with Pearl and Bev

Making of the Whistler's Mother 'Painting'

Whistler's Mother as exhibited at Tampa FL, Bright Star teddy bear show.

The original painting

2014
Whistler's Mother Bear

18" tall - OOAK

The original painting

Bev's Creation

Bev's Creation

IDEX 2008 Fantasy Runway Charity Event

Her painted canvas dress replicates the golden art deco dress from the famous Austrian painting by Gustav Klimpt.
Her small shoulder bag, has the original picture decoupaged on one side, my parody
on the other.

Model Jaklyn with Emilie

in painted canvas dress, purse and jewelry.

Jaklyn and Bev

2008
Emilie
22" tall, OOAK

2008
Gustav
22" tall - OOAK
Gus’ robe is acrylic painted canvas, replicating the design in The Kiss painting.

Emilie was carried by a lovely model
at the IDEX 2008 Fantasy Runway charity for Save The Children Foundation.

The size 6 dress, jewelry and purse were created from canvas painted with acrylics, and fit perfectly! Emilie went home with her happy new owners, who also adopted Gus.

From the beginning to the end of this long challenging project, I derived great enjoyment in merging my love of making bears, with unique clothing design and painting artwork.
It just doesn't get any better than that!

Behind the scenes
How some of these creations were made by Bev.

Bev and The Kiss

The painting is started

2007 - The Kiss - Parody

On the 100th Anniversary of Klimpts Kiss a 3’x4’ OOAK

1907 The Kiss by Gustav Klimpt
The original oil painting was 6’x 6’ tall and painted during his “Golden Period”.

Selecting the colors, fabrics and accessories.

This museum commission was created using acrylic painting on stretched canvas and a trapunto technique to create the bears
in low-relief with mohair fabric.

How Van Gogh's Sunflower Parady was created.

The Van Gogh Sunflowers Parody is a bouquet of 15 different mohair bear faces, with glass eyes and embroidered noses. They are set into the flower centers of one of Van Gogh’s famous Sunflower pictures. After completing an acrylic painted backdrop, silk flower petals were incorporated, before attaching the three dimensional fabric faces, set at the various angles of the underlying flowers

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