Grainger McKoy: Red-Shouldered Hawks and Copperhead Snake

Early sketch

This idea was triggered after observing the bold, hunger-induced behavior of an immature red-shouldered hawk blundering in upon an adult trying to make a meal of a copperhead.

This is one of Grainger's earliest and, to those who have seen it in person, most memorable sculptures. It is currently in a private residence in Birmingham, Alabama.

Red-Shouldered Hawks and Copperhead Snake: 1974
Basswood, metal, and oil paint
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Ireland


	Order A Catalogue This sixty-four page color catalogue, with a biographical essay by noted author James Kilgo, was published in 1999 to coincide with Grainger's exhibit at Brookgreen Gardens.			Acquire Sculpture Grainger has cast a number of his original wood sculptures into exquisite bronze and sterling silver limited editions. Created in the traditional lost-wax process, they have the same incredible detail as his wood sculpture.