Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves the blue hill in the

the blue hill in the background — it is a view from any number of back roads in Simcoe or Grey County

as are the ear tufts

the way the exposed reef holds water and life

his work has been collected by museums

The composition places the birds in their natural habitat

Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves the blue hill in theA nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them, the rock below carrying the last patches of June snow. This 1987 watercolour is one of Glen's most compositionally ambitious: the white of the goats against the white of the distant glaciers, distinguished only by texture and proximity, the whole painting a study in the specific whites of different natural