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Joy Kroeger Beckner
"Squirrel Season - Smooth"
Bronze, Edition of 50 & 5 Artist's Proofs
Based on a standard, smooth dachshund
1:6 Scale, 8" H x 8" W x 1 7/8" D

In 2003, the Society of Animal Artists, Inc., honored "Squirrel Season - Smooth" with an Award of Excellence and included the work in its National Museum Tour.
Also in 2003, the National Sculpture Society, NSS, awarded "Squirrel Season - Smooth" its Polich Art Foundry Prize, given in memory of Benson Selzer, in its 70th Annual Exhibition.

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Photograph by Mel Schockner.
Photograph by Mel Schockner.

Photograph by Mel Schockner.
Photograph by Mel Schockner.

"Squirrel Season - Smooth" is shown on display at the Lewisville, TX, Public Library. Photograph by Elizabeth Loggins.

"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 stimulate two entirely different approaches to "hunting" them: manly Edgar simply stares at a squirrel -- as if he can "will" it down from the tree, while his eternally optimistic grandmother Lizzie leaps and leaps, hugging the tree and nearly wearing the hair off her chest, each time she attempts to reach it. My dachshund anatomy mentor 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. Actually, now that she is nearly fourteen years old, she uses the staring method too, but at age twelve, she nearly climbed trees for squirrels! 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 free-standing sculpture." - Joy Kroeger Beckner
The sculpture "Squirrel Season - Smooth" is available in two patinas:
1. Red (as shown on the top left image above).
2. Black and tan (as shown on the top right image above).

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