The Sentinel — Giclée on Paper Original the red cherries brilliant against

the red cherries brilliant against the turning autumn leaves

a different register from his Ontario compositions

Glen made this watercolour at the height of his powers

one watching from a mossy bank

but finding that same bird in green requires subtler chromatic judgment

The Sentinel — Giclée on Paper Original the red cherries brilliant againstA lone White Pine on a Shield promontory the tree shaped by decades of prevailing wind, leaning slightly, the branches on the windward side stripped and dead while the leeward side still holds its dark green needles. This is the sentinel tree of the Canadian Shield: standing apart from the forest, shaped by exposure, enduring. Glen gave it the full complexity of a portrait subject the specific character of this particular pine, not a generic tree. The