Mountain Goats and Kids - Tote Bag Mammals and deep blue

and deep blue

He understood that the most compelling wildlife images come not from dramatic confrontations but from the small

he was filling sketchbooks with anatomical studies done from skin specimens at the Royal Ontario Museum

The painting is remarkable for the quality of attention given to both the birds and the field: the Snow Geese are rendered with the same care as his Canada Geese studies

This is one of Glen's most vivid departures from his northern wildlife subjects: the colour is tropical

Mountain Goats and Kids - Tote Bag Mammals and deep blueA nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them, the rock below carrying the last patches of June snow. This 1987 watercolour is one of Glen's most compositionally ambitious: the white of the goats against the white of the distant glaciers, distinguished only by texture and proximity, the whole painting a study in the specific whites of different natural