Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937)
Tale-O with Squirrels (1915)
oil on canvas
20 × 16 inches
29 × 25 × 4 inches (framed)
signed and dated lower left
$15,000-25,000
Alternate Views
VERSO
Signed and “#465”
The artist wrote, “The Indians are especially fond of squirrels or any game. The old folks say that the reason the tribe is dying is because they are compelled to eat beef and flour instead of fish, game, acorns, buckeyes, wild bulbs and tubers, shellfish and sea-weed, salt from the pine tree.”
LITERATURE
Searles R. Boynton D.D.S., The Painter Lady Grace Carpenter Hudson, Sun House Guild, 1978, p. 122, illustrated