Pumpkin Patch — Framed Piece square-scarf feet just leaving the water

feet just leaving the water among the cattails and lily pads

the layered depth of the sky can all be built up in coloured pencil in a way that rewards the closest viewing

and Glen painted it at the peak of its intensity

gentle where much of it is formally demanding

Pumpkin Patch — Framed Piece square-scarf feet just leaving the waterAn Ontario pumpkin field at harvest the great orange spheres scattered across the dried vine rows in the foreground, the field continuing to the horizon where a murmuration of starlings is lifting and banking over the distant treeline. This 1981 coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most expansive agricultural scenes: the repetition of the pumpkins across the middle distance creates a rhythm that carries the eye to the far field, where the