Bluebirds — Framed Piece Mat:White This 1985 watercolour is among

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

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

The botanical composition is extraordinary: the Jack-in-the-pulpit rendered in full detail — the striped spathe

a small beetle visible on the cactus surface below

a bird of the old Scots and Scandinavian pine forests — painted with the same anatomical precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects

Bluebirds — Framed Piece Mat:White This 1985 watercolour is amongEastern 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