Garter Snake and Grasshopper — Framed Piece Frame:Black Glen's spring wildflower compositions are

Glen's spring wildflower compositions are among his most joyful works — the combination of botanical precision and emotional warmth that comes from painting a subject he loved at the season he loved it

the cygnets' grey a perfect tonal bridge between the white adults and the dark water

in the garden

where he spent weeks at a time observing the land before committing it to paper

Garter Snake and Grasshopper — Framed Piece Frame:Black Glen's spring wildflower compositions areA garter snake strikes upward at a grasshopper in mid flight the snake's body coiled on a sandy bank, the yellow striped scales rendered scale by scale, the mouth open wide, the grasshopper's wings spread at the moment of attempted escape. This is one of Glen's earliest known works, signed 1963, and it already demonstrates the observational discipline that would define his career: the snake's anatomy is exact, the grasshopper's wing venation visible.