Cardinals in Snow — Framed Piece Framed Posters Pickerelweed in a summer marsh

Pickerelweed in a summer marsh — the purple flower spikes rising from heart-shaped leaves still beaded with rain

his heron paintings — of multiple species — are among the most technically accomplished in his bird catalogue

Glen painted ducklings with the same completeness he gave all his young-animal subjects: the specific downy texture of newly hatched birds

fallen maple leaves

the anatomy recorded with precision

Cardinals in Snow — Framed Piece Framed Posters Pickerelweed in a summer marshA male cardinal drops toward a snow covered pine, wings spread in landing, while a female forages below in the blue white shadow of the drifts. This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates the red of the male against winter snow, the composition spare and absolutely certain. Nothing is wasted. The pine needles, the seed casings scattered on the snow, the shadow that gives the drift its dimension: every element