Cougar Basking — Gallery Canvas scarves the surrounding trees bare and

the surrounding trees bare and white

a single log crossing the foreground

and the western landscapes he encountered there produced some of his most expansive work

and Glen was aware of that dimension when he painted it

The wildflower above them

Cougar Basking — Gallery Canvas scarves the surrounding trees bare andA cougar at rest in tall grass fully recumbent, paws forward, eyes half lidded in the heat. This graphite pencil study, dated 1995, shows Glen working in pure drawing: the cougar's form dissolving at the edges into loose gestural marks that suggest grass and heat shimmer without defining them precisely. Where the Cougar painting demonstrates anatomical power and formal authority, this study demonstrates something rarer an animal at ease, the predator