the pale spotted coat of the cub: the painting is built from a palette of greys
his insect and butterfly studies demonstrate the full breadth of his observational range
This is Glen in a more painterly mode: less interested in the precise anatomy of the individual bloom than in the quality of light in a chicory meadow at a particular time of day
the more movement and personality emerge
Of course Canada's national animal would attract him
Moose — Bag Original the pale spotted coat ofA bull moose crashes through a river the massive body at full stride, water exploding from both sides, the palmate antlers still in velvet and already enormous. Glen's field notes at the lower left record the specimen: Alces alces andersoni, from Bon Echo, Frontenac district, Ontario, date October 6, 1939, acquired from the Department of Lands and Forests. The scientific context is part of the painting's identity this is a specific animal from a