Cougar Basking — Gallery Canvas scarves slightly behind

slightly behind

and Glen was aware of that dimension when he painted it

the surrounding trees bare and white

The wildflower above them

a single log crossing the foreground

Cougar Basking — Gallery Canvas scarves slightly behindA cougar at rest in tall grass fully recumbent, paws forward, eyes half lidded in the heat. This graphite pencil study, dated 1995, shows Glen working in pure drawing: the cougar's form dissolving at the edges into loose gestural marks that suggest grass and heat shimmer without defining them precisely. Where the Cougar painting demonstrates anatomical power and formal authority, this study demonstrates something rarer an animal at ease, the predator