“This rendering-  in a completely different media – seeks to note the popular

sculpture of the late Beniamino. Bufano, an Italian-American WW II era peace artist,

who once lived in the San Francisco Bay area. Many replicas of Beniamino’s bears exist

around the City of San Francisco such as those found at Parnassus & 3^rd Streets -

University of California, San Francisco campus,  in the courtyard of the Golden Gate

Park’s Aquarium, and across the Bay at the Oakland Art Museum, CA.”