Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife Glen rendered the lynx's face

Glen rendered the lynx's face with the meticulous graphite work that distinguished his drawing practice from his watercolours: every individual strand of the ruff suggested rather than laboured

Hawkweed was one of the roadside wildflowers Glen grew up observing in Ontario

This painting strips everything away except the bird itself

A botanical study combining two forest floor plants — False Solomon's Seal with its arching stem and paired leaves

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife Glen rendered the lynx's facePickerelweed in a summer marsh the purple flower spikes rising from heart shaped leaves still beaded with rain, a damselfly perched at the top, the whole composition dissolved at the edges into the atmospheric blue green of the water around it. This 1964 painting is among Glen's most luminous early botanical works: the Pickerelweed rendered with complete precision at centre, the background impressionistic and atmospheric, the result a painting that is