Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White the horizon far back

the horizon far back

has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel

dramatic takeoffs

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wolf paintings are among the most celebrated in his wildlife catalogue

old-growth character — is part of the painting's meaning as well as its composition

Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White the horizon far backTwo Common Grackles in a tropical tree one high on a branch singing, long tail fanned, the other hanging below among the broad leaves. The graphite study is from 1985, and the setting plumeria flowers at left, large tropical foliage suggests an observation made on one of Glen's working trips outside Canada. The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone. Drawing was the