White-tailed Deer — Bag sea Drawing was always the foundation

Drawing was always the foundation of his practice — long before the watercolours that made him famous

The tufted ears

where he spent weeks at a time observing the land before committing it to paper

the distant hills a blue-purple band

The intimacy of this composition — the close

White-tailed Deer — Bag sea Drawing was always the foundationA White tailed Deer at the forest edge the animal's autumn coat warm against the turning leaves behind it, the alert posture of a deer that has heard something and not yet decided whether to flee. This is one of Glen's most behaviorally precise deer studies: the specific posture of a deer in the moment of attention, ears forward, nostrils working, the weight shifted slightly onto the haunches in preparation for flight that may or may not come. Glen