Moose — Framed Piece Insects and Butterflies A Common Loon with two

A Common Loon with two chicks riding on its back — the parent's brilliant summer plumage rendered in full detail

Glen painted the grizzly with the same discipline he brought to his quieter subjects — years of study from specimens and field observation

neck extended

a female arriving from above with wings still open

the result a painting that is both scientifically accurate and visually dreamy

Moose — Framed Piece Insects and Butterflies A Common Loon with twoA bull moose crashes through a river the massive body at full stride, water exploding from both sides, the palmate antlers still in velvet and already enormous. Glen's field notes at the lower left record the specimen: Alces alces andersoni, from Bon Echo, Frontenac district, Ontario, date October 6, 1939, acquired from the Department of Lands and Forests. The scientific context is part of the painting's identity this is a specific animal from a