Frederick Judd Waugh (style of), After Donald Baxter MacMillan Photograph, Polar Bear on Drift Ice

Oil on canvas depicting a solitary polar bear standing upon drifting Arctic ice beneath a dramatic northern sky. Executed in the style of Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940), the composition corresponds closely to a painting documented by Arctic explorer Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874-1970) during the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917). The Bowdoin College archives preserve both an image of the painting itself and a photograph showing MacMillan photographs of works by Waugh during this period. Waugh and MacMillan were active in the same Provincetown maritime circles. The present work remains apparently unsigned and is offered as style of rather than an attribution.