Polar Bear Cubs — Framed Piece Print Size:21.5" x 30" not a generic tree

not a generic tree

The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone

This piece is executed in coloured pencil

this winter storm landscape is one of his most atmospheric and emotionally uncompromising works

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Polar Bear Cubs — Framed Piece Print Size:21.5" x 30" not a generic treeTwo polar bear cubs play on the Arctic pack ice one rearing up, one crouching forward on the edge of a melt pool, the blue ice and Arctic water behind them. This 1985 watercolour is among Glen's most warmly received Arctic works: the cubs' thick white fur rendered with the same patient fine brush work he brought to all his young animal subjects, the ice surface given every variation of blue and white that genuine Arctic ice carries. The cubs' postures