Eastern Gray Squirrels — Gallery Canvas Print Size:31.5" x 36" every muscle of the haunches

every muscle of the haunches visible under the tawny coat

his botanical and landscape work is held in collections alongside his celebrated wildlife paintings

This is Canada's national animal doing exactly what it has always done: building something that will outlast the season

Glen's waterfowl studies extended from the dramatic adult plumage paintings to these quieter early-season studies of young birds

But this piece belongs to a different category

Eastern Gray Squirrels — Gallery Canvas Print Size:31.5" x 36" every muscle of the haunchesTwo Eastern Gray Squirrels in a massive autumn oak one grey, one black (the melanistic form common in Ontario), both navigating the great forking branches of a tree that Glen rendered with the same attention he gave the animals. This 1984 watercolour is one of his most architecturally ambitious compositions: the oak's bark and branch structure take up most of the canvas, the remaining autumn leaves carefully placed, the squirrels integrated into the