In the 1920s Squire and Mars returned to Europe, eventually settling in Vence on the French Riviera. There Squire and Mars were active in an artists' community that included Marsden Hartley and Reginald Marsh. The couple continued to collaborate on children's book illustration and each again took up painting and drawing. Mars, who concentrated on modernist painting and gouache drawing, exhibited in Paris during the 1920s. Squire concentrated on large-scale watercolors of outdoor public scenes. The couple continued working until about 1930.

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During World War II, Squire and Mars, then in their sixties, went into hiding near Grenoble. After the war, they returned to their home, La Farigoule, in Vence. Squire died in 1955; Mars in 1956. The two women are buried together in Vence.

Squire's work can be seen at the Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis), South Kensington Museum (London), the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D. C.), and online from the Mary Ryan Gallery (New York) and the Smithsonian Museum. Mars's work can be seen online from the Smithsonian Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mary Ryan Gallery (New York).

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