Cardinals in Snow — Bag For her and Glen captured their specific

and Glen captured their specific physicality: the way they sit low in the water

The black and grey together in one composition makes a quietly striking point about the range of colour within a single species

An Ontario pumpkin field at harvest — the great orange spheres scattered across the dried vine rows in the foreground

gold foliage

this autumn leaf composition is one of his most distinctive and formally inventive works

Cardinals in Snow — Bag For her and Glen captured their specificA male cardinal drops toward a snow covered pine, wings spread in landing, while a female forages below in the blue white shadow of the drifts. This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates the red of the male against winter snow, the composition spare and absolutely certain. Nothing is wasted. The pine needles, the seed casings scattered on the snow, the shadow that gives the drift its dimension: every element