Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White Bobbie Kalman

Bobbie Kalman

in the garden

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose large mammal studies are among the most powerful in Canadian wildlife art

holding something in its forepaws

Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White Bobbie KalmanA Red Squirrel faces off against a Pileated Woodpecker on the trunk of a dead pine the woodpecker emerging from its excavation, the squirrel on a branch just across, both alert and assessing. This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated, excavating for carpenter ants, and the Red Squirrel, investigating the noise, have come face to face. The composition is spare and tense, the background dissolved to a soft blue. Glen observed and