Canada Lynx — Framed Piece Mat:White the animal itself becomes the

the animal itself becomes the entire subject

The composition is vertical and dramatic — the trunk fills most of the canvas

a different register from his Ontario compositions

and Glen knew this subject deeply from decades of summers on Ontario lakes

the outcome is suspended

Canada Lynx — Framed Piece Mat:White the animal itself becomes theA Canada Lynx turns mid stride in deep snow, yellow eyes catching the viewer, the enormous snowshoe paws sinking only slightly into the drifted surface. This 1983 watercolour is one of Glen's most celebrated winter mammal paintings the lynx's silver grey coat painted with the kind of botanical patience he usually reserved for feather studies, every hair of the dense winter fur placed with intention. Glen observed lynx during winter fieldwork in