The pup's grey-black coat is rendered with the soft precision that Glen brought to all his young-animal subjects
Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton
the more movement and personality emerge
Of course Canada's national animal would attract him
and Glen painted the bird with the awareness of someone who had heard it as well as observed it
Moose — Bag Original The pup's grey-black coat isA 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