The Art showing is located about 10.5 kilometres north-northeast of Stewart, on the north side of Bitter Creek, and approximately 4.5 kilometres east-southeast of the confluence of Bitter Creek and the Bear River.

The area is underlain by the Tertiary(?) quartz monzonite Bitter Creek pluton, a satellite intrusion of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The pluton intrudes Middle Jurassic sediments of the Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). The nature of the hostrock is not clear; it may be granitoid or sedimentary.

No details on the mineralization are available. In 1979, a grab sample from mineralized outcrop assayed 3.4 grams per tonne gold and 4.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 8095). This showing may have a similar geologic setting as the S.D. showing (104A 139) 1000 metres to the south; here quartz veins are mineralized with chalcopyrite.

In 1979, the showing was covered by the Art claims, owned by Beaver Gold Resources Inc. That year, the company carried out a program of geological mapping, prospecting, sampling and geochemical surveys in the area; the showing was sampled at that time. No further work has been reported on the showing. During 2005 through 2010, Auramex completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Bear River-Surprise Creek property.