Mourning Dove — Giclée on Paper Artwork head turns

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This is not a portrait of innocence but of early competence

each bird placed with its own specific posture and intent

This is one of Glen's most sophisticated winter landscape-and-animal compositions: the fox placed in a specific habitat

But this piece belongs to a different category

Mourning Dove — Giclée on Paper Artwork head turnsA Mourning Dove nests among rhododendron branches the warm buff brown plumage pressed close to the ground, the iridescent neck patch just visible, the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird. This 1986 watercolour is a study in patient attention: the dove is fully aware of the observer but committed to the nest. The rhododendron leaves and fallen petals are rendered with botanical precision. Glen observed nesting birds