Snowy Owl Portrait — Gallery Canvas Square The Red Columbine — Aquilegia

The Red Columbine — Aquilegia canadensis — is rendered with the same botanical precision Glen brought to all his wildflower subjects: the pendant flowers

This is Glen at his most intimate — the subject small enough to sit in your palm

a cottontail rabbit sitting perfectly still

Painted in 1966

and Glen painted it with the authority of someone who had

Snowy Owl Portrait — Gallery Canvas Square The Red Columbine — AquilegiaA Snowy Owl portrait the bird filling the frame, turned three quarters, the yellow eyes compelling and direct. The white plumage is rendered with the fine brush discipline that Glen brought to all his owl portraits: every feather an individual mark, the subtle barring that indicates a female bird rendered without overstating it, the facial disc and bill precisely placed. This is the Snowy Owl as a presence rather than as a landscape element. Where the