Winter White with Purple Martin House — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Mirrored the way the light breaks

the way the light breaks through behind the cloud: all of it is observed with the same discipline Glen brought to his animal subjects

painted in 1965 when he was already demonstrating the close observational eye that would define his career

while a female forages below in the blue-white shadow of the drifts

The Screech Owl's cryptic plumage — all bark-brown streaks and mottles — makes it one of the most technically demanding small owl subjects in Ontario wildlife art

then tight and disciplined in the trunk and bark — a contrast Glen was known for

Winter White with Purple Martin House — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Mirrored the way the light breaksA snow covered winter landscape with a Purple Martin house in the foreground the martin house empty and snow capped, the surrounding trees bare and white, the whole scene in the blue white palette of a clear winter day. The martin house that very human addition to the summer yard sits in the painting as a promise: the martins will return. Glen's winter landscapes often include these notes of human presence or absence the bird feeder, the martin house,