Pickerelweed — Gallery Canvas Book The composition is built from

The composition is built from the leaves of the birch — some still green

This piece exemplifies his commitment to excellence and his profound respect for nature

Glen worked from actual Red Fox specimens in the Royal Ontario Museum collection

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making it a breathtaking representation of his artistic prowess

Pickerelweed — Gallery Canvas Book The composition is built fromPickerelweed 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