Calgary Foothills — Framed Piece Square Glen's butterfly studies occupy a

Glen's butterfly studies occupy a distinct place in his catalogue — smaller in scale than his mammal or bird work

but undeniably

A Bengal tiger — every stripe and muscle in motion — brings down a Chital deer in long grass

its white petals as precisely rendered as the fawn's spots

Calgary Foothills — Framed Piece Square Glen's butterfly studies occupy aThe Rocky Mountains rise behind a wide open Alberta foothills sky bare poplars in the foreground, a farmstead just visible in the middle distance, and in the far distance the permanent white of snow capped peaks under a vault of luminous cloud. This is the scale of the Canadian west rendered in coloured pencil, a medium that gives the piece its characteristic warmth the purple blue of the distant hills, the pale gold of winter grass. Glen made