Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife This painting strips everything away

This painting strips everything away except the bird itself

The Eastern White Pine — Ontario's provincial tree and one of the most iconic trees in the Canadian landscape — receives here the same detailed attention Glen gave his wildlife subjects

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Glen rendered the lynx's face with the meticulous graphite work that distinguished his drawing practice from his watercolours: every individual strand of the ruff suggested rather than laboured

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife This painting strips everything awayPickerelweed in a summer marsh the purple flower spikes rising from heart shaped leaves still beaded with rain, a damselfly perched at the top, the whole composition dissolved at the edges into the atmospheric blue green of the water around it. This 1964 painting is among Glen's most luminous early botanical works: the Pickerelweed rendered with complete precision at centre, the background impressionistic and atmospheric, the result a painting that is