Great Blue Heron — Gallery Canvas Cat Glen captured that quality without

Glen captured that quality without sentimentalizing it

all rendered with the same care he gave his large mammals

his bird watercolours have been collected across North America for over five decades

This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates — the red of the male against winter snow

Great Blue Heron — Gallery Canvas Cat Glen captured that quality withoutA Great Blue Heron lifts from a marsh wings spreading wide, neck curved, feet just leaving the water among the cattails and lily pads. This 1993 watercolour catches the heron in the most difficult moment: the transition from stillness to flight, the body not yet airborne, the wings not yet at full stroke. Glen solved it with loose, luminous watercolour washes for the atmospheric background and tighter, more deliberate brushwork for the bird itself.