Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves as are the ear tufts

as are the ear tufts

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

The composition captures a specific Canadian moment — that brief overlap when the last of the fall colour and the first winter snow exist together

this winter storm landscape is one of his most atmospheric and emotionally uncompromising works

the tawny centres

Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves as are the ear tuftsA 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