Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves The composition places the birds

The composition places the birds in their natural habitat

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

the compound leaves

Glen painted big cat cubs with a particular intensity — the contradiction between the animal's present smallness and its future power

Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves The composition places the birdsA 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