Cardinals in Snow - Tote Bag Sold and Glen does not flinch

and Glen does not flinch

ears cocked

Glen's spring wildflower compositions are among his most joyful works — the combination of botanical precision and emotional warmth that comes from painting a subject he loved at the season he loved it

is one of the painting's finest passages

the viewer placed at its base looking upward into its structure

Cardinals in Snow - Tote Bag Sold and Glen does not flinchA 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