The Sleeping Wolf, 1891, Oil on canvas on plywood, 15 5/16 x 25 ¼” (38.9 x 64.2cm), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931, ALL#4044 Seton painted this work during one of his sojourns in Paris. The obliging model lived at the...
Kit Fox and His kingdom (All image rights to Seton artwork reserved by the Academy for the Love of Learning. Click images to enlarge.) A single photograph can capture a limited amount of information about an animal and its environment. The drawing medium, however, can...
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, Robert W. Wood, 1907 (Check out Wood’s book.) Unfortunately for Seton, the Nature Faker controversy just would not die down. Having seemingly run its course in June 1907, it flared back up in the September issue of...
John Burroughs at Wyndygoul, Seton’s estate, undated Like a case of poison ivy that will not go away, John Burroughs continued his attacks on the nature fakers in February 1904, this time in The Century Magazine. This time he focused his fury on William Long...
Seton Illustration from The Century Magazine The revered, elderly, lyrical naturalist John Burroughs attacked Seton as a “Nature Faker” in an article entitled “Real and Sham Natural History,” appearing in the March 1903 issue of Atlantic Monthly. This hurt...
