Highlights of the Academy collection of Seton Drawings and Paintings
Wildcat Walking Warily/Ernest Thompson Seton
ALL #0108. Pen & Ink on paper. Ca. 1920s. 16.4 x 26.4 cm. Synoptic drawing. Likely drawn by Seton at his New York or Connecticut studios. Yellowed sheet glued to mat. Published in Lives of Game Animals, Vol. I, pg. 211, “The Bobcat” chapter. The rather tense and on-edge cat strides between the two most feared animals of the forest—the porcupine and the skunk. Seton used drawn depiction to capture what would have been impossible for photography. He claimed that even the fiercest big predators would give way to either of the two smaller animals. Edited reenactment video shows what could happen.
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