Bluebirds — Framed Piece Mat:White and the Harlequin — spectacular

and the Harlequin — spectacular and rarely depicted in Canadian wildlife art with this level of anatomical precision — received his full attention

A Trumpeter Swan family on a northern lake — the white adults and their grey cygnets moving across still water

This 1985 watercolour is among Glen's most warmly received Arctic works: the cubs' thick white fur rendered with the same patient fine-brush work he brought to all his young-animal subjects

Copyright Date: 1984 Folio

the fly visible above the snout as the fish tilts upward from the gravel streambed

Bluebirds — Framed Piece Mat:White and the Harlequin — spectacularEastern Bluebirds the male's deep cerulean blue and warm russet breast among the most vivid plumage combinations in Ontario's bird life rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects. The composition places the birds in their natural habitat, the specific postures and proportions of the species exactly right: the slightly hunched posture of a bluebird on a perch, the way they drop and return in short hunting flights. Glen observed