Garter Snake and Grasshopper — Giclée on Paper Watercolor his botanical studies are collected

his botanical studies are collected alongside his celebrated wildlife paintings worldwide

The graphite work here is among Glen's most technically demanding: the tiger's anatomy is rendered with the accuracy of someone who has studied big cat specimens closely

this summer field landscape is one of his most evocative and regionally specific Ontario works

The foothills were a subject he returned to: that particular geometry of prairie meeting mountain

the light seemingly coming from within the green — gives the piece a quality unlike his later

Garter Snake and Grasshopper — Giclée on Paper Watercolor his botanical studies are collectedA garter snake strikes upward at a grasshopper in mid flight the snake's body coiled on a sandy bank, the yellow striped scales rendered scale by scale, the mouth open wide, the grasshopper's wings spread at the moment of attempted escape. This is one of Glen's earliest known works, signed 1963, and it already demonstrates the observational discipline that would define his career: the snake's anatomy is exact, the grasshopper's wing venation visible.