Season's Greetings — Framed Piece Print Size:10" x 7.5" and it has the streamlined

and it has the streamlined profile of a falcon alongside the spotted-and-barred plumage of an owl

the buff facial disc

Cardinals in winter were a subject Glen returned to across his career

The landscape behind is barely indicated — treeline

just the precise observation of two species in their natural relationship

Season's Greetings — Framed Piece Print Size:10" x 7.5" and it has the streamlinedThere is a story behind this painting that no other gallery can tell. When Michael Loates was ten years old, he and his father Glen built a snowman together in the yard. While Glen was outside painting the finished snowman, a gust of wind caught one of the mitts and blew it off landing in the snow a short distance away. Glen found this genuinely funny. Rather than fix it, he left it exactly where it fell, and painted the scene just as it was: the