Pickerelweed - Tote Bag birds A tiger in close portrait

A tiger in close portrait — the face filling most of the canvas

A Western Meadowlark — the vivid yellow breast with its black chevron catching the morning light

the antenna

the background dissolved to a soft blue

they have borne fruit for decades

Pickerelweed - Tote Bag birds A tiger in close portraitPickerelweed in a summer marsh the purple flower spikes rising from heart shaped leaves, a damselfly perched at the top, the whole composition dissolved at the edges into the atmospheric blue green of the water around it. One of Glen's most luminous early botanical works. Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; this 1964 botanical is one of his most distinctive and beloved wildflower works. Glen Loates is a member of the Royal