Pickerelweed - Tote Bag birds the antenna

the antenna

This is one of Glen's earliest and most intimate bird studies

Glen spent years studying raptor anatomy from both live specimens and the ROM collection

A Western Meadowlark — the vivid yellow breast with its black chevron catching the morning light

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

Pickerelweed - Tote Bag birds the antennaPickerelweed in a summer marsh the purple flower spikes rising from heart shaped leaves, a damselfly perched at the top, the whole composition dissolved at the edges into the atmospheric blue green of the water around it. One of Glen's most luminous early botanical works. Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; this 1964 botanical is one of his most distinctive and beloved wildflower works. Glen Loates is a member of the Royal