Bald Eagle Head — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black Glen rendered the jays' electric

Glen rendered the jays' electric blue against the tawny copper of the oak leaves with the kind of chromatic confidence that only comes from painting the same birds

his loon paintings are among the most widely held in Canadian collections

Glen captured the irresistible contradiction of the bobcat cub: built for hunting

Glen caught it in the mid-turn position

This is a painting that people return to across a lifetime: seen as a child

Bald Eagle Head — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black Glen rendered the jays' electricA close watercolour study the eagle in profile, beak open in mid call, every feather around the head rendered to the level of detail Glen was famous for in his bird studies. The soft wash of sky behind the bird leaves no doubt where it belongs. This painting strips everything away except the bird itself, the way Glen often worked when he wanted the viewer to meet an animal eye to eye. Glen Loates spent years drawing from skin specimens at the Royal