Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1861 to August 5, 1935) was a world-famous deaf sculptor who went to the California School for the Deaf, Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). He made many statues that sit in San Francisco, Berkeley, and the Bay Area of California. Jump to: navigation, search May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Jump to: navigation, search Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon reserve Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search Fremont, California from NASAs Landsat The city of Fremont highlighted within Alameda County Fremont is a city in California which was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Irvington, Mission San Jose, Niles, and Warm Springs. ...

He has many artworks to his credits:

• Football Players, which stands as one of the first permanent artwork on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
• Bear Hunt, a statue of a bear protecting her cub and wrestling with two Native Americans, and is featured in the California School for the Deaf in Fremont.
• Mechanics Monument, which may be seen in San Francisco that served as an inspiration for the city to rebuild itself.

Many detect a certain homoeroticism in his works because they featured young athletic men that may or may not be clothed. In the Football Players, many people have noted that the scene of two football players, one is injured and resting on the shoulder of another, and the other is tenderly bandaging the wounds, shows the intimate male bonding in sports as of interdependence between the players. The gay and lesbian community has co-opted the statue as representing the best ideal of the visible "queer" community on campus. Jump to: navigation, search University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ...

External links

• Gay Bears: Douglas Tilden
• Bear Hunt Statue