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Two scarlet tanagers move through a spray of maple. One clings to a twig above, wings half open, looking straight out of the picture. The other drops away below in flight, its feathers a patchwork of scarlet, orange and gold. The leaves turn from cool blue-green to sunlit yellow, and the rest of the sheet is left white, so the birds carry the whole composition.
Glen has watched these birds since boyhood. Growing up in Toronto, he explored the wooded grounds of Mount Pleasant Cemetery near his family's home, where cardinals, Baltimore orioles and scarlet tanagers were among the first birds he studied first-hand.
Colour pencil on paper
Signed lower right
Image 19.5” x 26”; overall 26.5” x 33.5”
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Glen Loates R.C.A. is the first Canadian artist represented at the White House. In 1982, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau arranged for him to present his painting The Bald Eagle to President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office, on behalf of Canada. His originals have also been given to His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and to Prime Minister Trudeau. Dignitaries and notable collectors hold his work. Every original in this collection comes directly from the Loates family.
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