Pickerelweed — Gallery Canvas Book Glen worked from actual Red

Glen worked from actual Red Fox specimens in the Royal Ontario Museum collection

the way the exposed reef holds water and life

his Rocky Mountain landscapes are collected alongside his wildlife paintings worldwide

The composition is built from the leaves of the birch — some still green

The coloured pencil rendering gives the lynx's winter coat extraordinary depth: the grey-ticked fur

Pickerelweed — Gallery Canvas Book Glen worked from actual RedPickerelweed 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