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:: The Bear Dance (a.k.a. The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Stock Market) ::

This undated painting by William Holbrook Beard (1824-1900) depicts an exclusive party of bears dancing to a dip in the stockmarket in a forest clearing. This is one of the most popular paintings in the New York Historical Society's collection. It was told that a reproduction of it hangs in the nurseries of many babies born to those who work on Wall Street. But junior needn't know about the bulls and bears just yet -- like many viewers, small children might mistake this scene for a teddy bear picnic. This painting is also known as The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Stock Market and The Wall Street Jubilee.

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