Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife This painting strips everything away

This painting strips everything away except the bird itself

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This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

Hawkweed was one of the roadside wildflowers Glen grew up observing in Ontario

A whitetail buck stands alert in a clearing of yellow birches and crimson maples while

Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife This painting strips everything awayPickerelweed in a summer marsh the purple flower spikes rising from heart shaped leaves still beaded with rain, a damselfly perched at the top, the whole composition dissolved at the edges into the atmospheric blue green of the water around it. This 1964 painting is among Glen's most luminous early botanical works: the Pickerelweed rendered with complete precision at centre, the background impressionistic and atmospheric, the result a painting that is