Cougar — Gallery Canvas water Drawing was always the foundation

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

This is raccoon behaviour rendered with complete accuracy: the tactile foraging style

and Glen's painting honours that quality

his loon paintings are among the most widely held in Canadian collections

the way they hold their bodies when uncertain

Cougar — Gallery Canvas water Drawing was always the foundationA cougar descends a rock face low and deliberate, its mouth slightly open, every muscle of the haunches visible under the tawny coat. The field notes at the bottom of the painting record the specimen: a female from the north end of Vancouver Island, collected in November 1932, now held in the ROM collection. This scientific context is not incidental Glen worked from actual specimens as well as field observation, and the anatomical precision of this