Drag Lake Cloud Study — Giclée on Paper Oil Pastel middle-ground colour

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and the mountain landscapes he produced there have a different character from his Alberta Rockies work — rougher

Gold aspens on the bank of Lac Cardinal on the Peace River — the trunks white against the yellow canopy

the winter light

The trillium — Ontario's provincial flower — frames the fawn at the left

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Giclée on Paper Oil Pastel middle-ground colourA summer sky above Drag Lake enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield, the distant forested hills just visible at the bottom edge of the composition. This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject, the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale. Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton, Ontario across his career, and the sky studies produced there