Moose — Bag Original This is Glen in a

This is Glen in a more painterly mode: less interested in the precise anatomy of the individual bloom than in the quality of light in a chicory meadow at a particular time of day

Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton

while the composition as a whole carries the warmth and freshness of early spring in an Ontario forest

the pale spotted coat of the cub: the painting is built from a palette of greys

The pup's grey-black coat is rendered with the soft precision that Glen brought to all his young-animal subjects

Moose — Bag Original This is Glen in aA bull moose crashes through a river the massive body at full stride, water exploding from both sides, the palmate antlers still in velvet and already enormous. Glen's field notes at the lower left record the specimen: Alces alces andersoni, from Bon Echo, Frontenac district, Ontario, date October 6, 1939, acquired from the Department of Lands and Forests. The scientific context is part of the painting's identity this is a specific animal from a