'Squirrel Season' Dachshund Bronze.
Here Joy has captured her two Dachshunds' obsession with squirrels.  Both had a different approach...Edgar simply stared at the squirrel as if he could will it down from the tree whilst his eternally optimistic grandmother, Lizzie, would leap and hug the tree in her attempts to reach the squirrel.  Joy's ability to capture their movement is utterly lifelike and enchanting.  Designed as a pair, they are a two-part freestanding sculpture or they can be used as bookends.

Edition availability:
1:6 Scale Smooth: (edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs) 8.25 ins W x 8ins H x 1.91ins D
1:6 Scale Wire: (edition of 20 + 2 artist's proofs) 8.25 ins W x 8ins H x 1.91ins D
1:6 Scale Long: (edition of 20 + 2 artist's proofs) 8.25 ins W x 8.75ins H x 1.91ins D
Patination options include bronze red, black & tan or toad

Joy Beckner has had a love of art since childhood and is inspired by sensuous shapes of skin, bone and muscle in human and animal forms.  Trained at Washington University School of Fine Arts she first worked in fashion and then fund raising before returning to art about twenty years ago when a sculpture class re-awakened her love for modelling clay.  She models clay into classical forms, which are then cast into bronze.  She is thrilled to make something move in the round bringing smiles, giggles or tears to the eyes of those who see and touch her work.

Her bronze dachshunds range from life-sized to 1:6 scale miniatures and  have won numerous awards, including the National Sculpture Society (of America) Silver Medal.  Other major awards include the Ellin P Speyer Prize from the National Academy; four Best in Shows and two Awards of Excellence, the Leonard J Meiselman Award and the Elliot Siskin Award from the Society of Animal Artists. 

Her work is collected on six continents by museums and corporations including The Library of Hattiesburg, the Dunnegan Gallery of Art in Bolivar and the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in her home town of St Louis in Missouri.