"Squirrel Season" Smooth 1:6 Scale
"Squirrel Season" Smooth at the Hiram Blauveldt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ. Many thanks to Marijane Singer, the late director of the Blauvelt, for displaying "Squirrel Season" as art! Bob Mason Photography
Award of Excellence, 43rd Annual Exhibition, Society of Animal Artists, Hiram Blauveldt Museum, Oradell, NJ.
Polich Art Foundry Prize, 70th Annual Exhibition, National Sculpture Society, NYC
Merit Award, Sculpture, 10th National Exhibition, Memphis Germantown Art League, TN
Award of Merit, Trinidad National Fine Art Exhibition, A.R. Mitchell Museum, Trinidad, CO
First Place, Sculpture & Artists’ Choice Award, 16th Contemporary American Dog Art Competition. Dog Fanciers Club, Inc., NYC
“Squirrel Season” Smooth
1:6 Scale 8″H x 8″W x 1 7/8″D
Bronze Ed. 50 & 5 Artist’s Proofs ©2003
Approx. 10 pounds
The idea for “Squirrel Season” came to me when my husband Brian and I walked our dachshunds Lizzie and Edgar in our neighborhood, AKA “Squirrel Alley.” Squirrels stimulated two entirely different approaches to hunting: manly Edgar simply stared at a squirrel as if he could “will” it down from the tree, while his eternally optimistic grandmother Lizzie leaped and leaped, hugging the tree and nearly wearing the hair off her chest each time she attempted to reach the squirrel.
My dachshund anatomy mentor, Judge Weldon Long, once commented about my Dream Chasers Series that I had done the impossible; I had made a dog look as if it is “on the move.” It was Weldon’s comment that encouraged me to create Lizzie leaping.
Collector Janet Depler commented, “You captured the power of their obsession and make me feel a bit better about admiring their determination and physical prowess. Thank you for expressing your affection so exactly.”
As with my other 1:6 scale works, I modeled these dachshunds directly in wax and created the bases to fit the action. Designed as a pair, they may be used as bookends or as a two-part freestanding sculpture.
“Squirrel Season” Smooth is great as “art”! Simply play with them until you find the perfect positions as if they are each interested in squirrels in a tree!
Each pair of “Squirrel Season” Smooth is made by hand, one at a time, in Colorado, USA.
Each dachshund is signed, dated, and numbered and includes my mark, 
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I invite a special person to commission me to create either or both of these dogs life-sized.
Enjoy!
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