Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife This is one of Glen's

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

The Eastern White Pine — Ontario's provincial tree and one of the most iconic trees in the Canadian landscape — receives here the same detailed attention Glen gave his wildlife subjects

A botanical study combining two forest floor plants — False Solomon's Seal with its arching stem and paired leaves

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

the foreground all rock and tidal life

Pickerelweed — Framed Piece Wildlife This is one of Glen'sPickerelweed in a summer marsh the purple flower spikes rising from heart shaped leaves still beaded with rain, a damselfly perched at the top, the whole composition dissolved at the edges into the atmospheric blue green of the water around it. This 1964 painting is among Glen's most luminous early botanical works: the Pickerelweed rendered with complete precision at centre, the background impressionistic and atmospheric, the result a painting that is