A nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit — the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them, the rock below carrying the last patches of June snow. This 1987 watercolour is one of Glen's most compositionally ambitious: the white of the goats against the white of the distant glaciers, distinguished only by texture and proximity, the whole painting a study in the specific whites of different natural surfaces.
Glen observed Mountain Goats in the Canadian Rockies at altitude — the ease with which these animals move across near-vertical rock is extraordinary, and he placed the kids on ledges that would challenge most human climbers. The panoramic mountain background, with its layered ridges receding into the haze, is itself a major achievement in the painting. Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; this is one of his most celebrated and panoramic wildlife compositions.
Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work has been collected internationally for over five decades. Each bag is printed to gallery standards and built to carry the conversation wherever you go.
