Bald Eagle — Framed Piece Print Size:40" x 32" A field of Black-Eyed Susans

A field of Black-Eyed Susans caught at the height of summer — the yellow so saturated it pushes back against the pale background

the enormous snowshoe paws sinking only slightly into the drifted surface

This is Glen working with a species outside his Canadian territory

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose waterfowl paintings are prized in collections across North America

Bald Eagle — Framed Piece Print Size:40" x 32" A field of Black-Eyed SusansThis is the painting. In January 1983, Glen and his brother Bernard, alongside Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, walked into the Oval Office and presented this watercolour of a bald eagle to U. S. President Ronald Reagan a gift on behalf of the people of Canada to the people of the United States. Reagan's letter of thanks, on White House letterhead, remains in the Loates family archive. What you are looking at is the work itself: a single bald eagle