Winter White with Purple Martin House — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Mirrored his small owl portraits are

his small owl portraits are among the finest in Canadian wildlife art

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife work spans five decades of international collection

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

The anatomy is exact — the distinctive thin neck

here it receives its own dedicated botanical attention

Winter White with Purple Martin House — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Mirrored his small owl portraits areA 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,