North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black one crouched low in its

one crouched low in its form

First Edition

the black wolf behind it watchful and still

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose raptor paintings are held in collections across North America

North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black one crouched low in itsA Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch the orange red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers, the bill open, the eye bright. This is a painting about the moment when Canadian spring fully arrives: when the Robins are singing and the apple trees are in bloom simultaneously, that particular week in May that feels like the year's most optimistic promise. The apple blossoms are botanically precise, the Robin anatomically exact.