Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves Glen painted big cat cubs

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

the compound leaves

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

the tawny centres

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

Mountain Goats and Kids — Bag Silk Scarves Glen painted big cat cubsA 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