> From:   "Sue Schrems" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:   4/10/2005 2:00:44 PM
> Subject:        FW: [Montana_History] Alert- STOLEN-  Yellowstone artwork
> 
> A message from Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone Park Historian: 
> 
> Many of you are familiar with the Union Pacific Bears images 
> of Yellowstone National Park as well as the cartoonlike bears 
> images that today grace the Old Faithful Inn dining room 
> and Bear Pit Bar in the form of glass panels. These bear 
> images are well known to Yellowstone afficionadoes. 
> 
> Both the Union Pacific Bears and the Bear Pit images were 
> originally painted in the 1920s and 1930s by artist Walter 
> Oehrle (pronounced EARLY) and were published in a small 
> pamphlet that was given away by the Yellowstone Park 
> Company. They were rendered into woodcuts, which graced 
> the inside of the Bear Pit Lounge at Old Faithful Inn for many 
> years. A couple of these woodcuts are still on the walls of 
> the Old Faithful Inn Snack Shop.  During a recent remodeling, 
> the images were redone in cut glass, and today they appear 
> on the walls of the Old Faithful dining room and Bear Pit Lounge. 
> 
> Recently Walter Oehrle's original eleven Bear Pit paintings were 
> STOLEN from the residence of Dan Fey of Seattle, a descendant 
> of Oehrle's. There are eleven paintings, each rendered in brown 
> and white (two-tone) on cardboard, each about 20 inches by 
> 24 inches in size. 
> 
> As you might imagine, the owner is quite upset about this 
> theft and has the Seattle police fully involved. Should anyone 
> encounter these images or information on their whereabouts, 
> please email Dan Fey at [log in to unmask] or call him at 
> (206) 329-6525 (home) or (206) 448-0474 (work). 
> 
> These images may eventually be offered on Ebay to collectors, 
> to a rare book or art dealer, or to a library or archives. PLEASE 
> BE ON THE ALERT FOR ANY OF THESE IMAGES.  Yellowstone 
> collectors are likely to be in the group of people to whom they 
> may be offered. A copy of this message will be placed in the 
> Yellowstone National Park History Archives so that those who 
> come after us can know of the theft in case the perpetrator 
> waits for many years to "unload" the materials. 
> 
> PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY FRIENDS YOU MAY 
> HAVE WHO ARE RARE BOOK OR ART DEALERS, ARCHIVISTS, 
> LIBRARIANS, OR YELLOWSTONE COLLECTORS, any of whom 
> could be offered a chance to purchase these stolen materials. 
> 
> Lee H. Whittlesey 
> Park Historian, National Park Service 
> 
> 

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