Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White the large dark eye completely

the large dark eye completely trusting

as are the ear tufts

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wolf paintings are among the most celebrated in his wildlife catalogue

old-growth character — is part of the painting's meaning as well as its composition

and this cougar kitten is one of the finest — the luminous blue background wash lifting the animal off the page

Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White the large dark eye completelyTwo Common Grackles in a tropical tree one high on a branch singing, long tail fanned, the other hanging below among the broad leaves. The graphite study is from 1985, and the setting plumeria flowers at left, large tropical foliage suggests an observation made on one of Glen's working trips outside Canada. The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone. Drawing was the