Goldfinch — Gallery Canvas Oil It is the kind of

It is the kind of scene any Canadian who has paddled north in late September knows by heart

The violet was one of Glen's most frequently revisited wildflower subjects — it appears as a companion in his fawn paintings

the other perched on a stem above watching

and Glen was aware of that dimension when he painted it

the notation that this was painted at actual size from a living plant

Goldfinch — Gallery Canvas Oil It is the kind ofA male American Goldfinch at peak summer plumage launches from a thistle wings spread, the electric yellow of the breeding male almost incandescent against the soft blue green atmospheric background. Thistle seeds drift in the air around it; a companion flower opens at centre. This 1970 watercolour is one of Glen's most chromatically confident pieces: that particular cadmium yellow green of the male in June is one of the hardest colours to render