by David L. Witt | Nov 24, 2025 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
Highlights of the Academy collection of Seton Drawings and Paintings Lobo Rex Currumpæ by Ernest Thompson Seton ALL#0538 Reproduction. Various versions, but the first use of the image likely from Wild Animals I Have Known (1898), pg. 55 in an early edition. This was...
by David L. Witt | Nov 21, 2025 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
Highlights of the Academy collection of Seton Drawings and Paintings Big Bear of Alaska/Ernest Thompson Seton ALL#109 Pen & Ink on paper. Ca. 1920s. 16.8 x 26.1cm. Synoptic drawing. Likely drawn by Seton at his New York or Connecticut studios. Sheet glued to mat....
by David L. Witt | Nov 17, 2025 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
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...
by David L. Witt | Nov 11, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Book cover, The Serviceberry (John Burgoyne, illustrator) I am always on the search for contemporary books addressing themes covered by Seton. For him, the realm of Nature is not only biological but also existing as a moral universe. Another facet of Nature is...
by David L. Witt | Oct 23, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Seton and the Wolf, undated Ernest Thompson Seton died midmorning Wednesday October 23, 1946, in his bedroom on the main floor of Seton Castle, Santa Fe, New Mexico. His final journal entries ended somewhat earlier. Even though the event happened seventy-nine years...
