by David L. Witt | Jun 3, 2020 | Seton Biography
Sleeping Wolf, oil, 1891, Academy for the Love of Learning There were worse things than to be an unmarried artist living in Paris in January 1891. Like other foreigners, Seton became a student at Académie Julian. Nude models (shocking! and not available in New York or...
by David L. Witt | Apr 20, 2020 | Seton Biography
Hawk study (drawing) by Joseph Wolf drawing from Seton’s personal collection Seton embarked for London in June of 1890, made a brief sojourn to Paris in August, but returned to England for the autumn and early winter. He had been disappointed in France “to find the...
by David L. Witt | Apr 15, 2020 | Seton Biography
Untitled, ca. 1880s, Ernest Thompson Seton Brief study of Seton’s day-by-day activity turns up a remarkable restlessness: He seldom remained in one place for long. While the Golden Days of his youth came to end as he decided to settle into a career at the end of 1883,...
by David L. Witt | Apr 9, 2020 | Curator's Notes
One advantage to being a long dead author is that your books enter the public domain and can come back to life in printed or digital form. Project Gutenberg has made digital copies of seventeen Seton books available in a variety of digital formats. The three most...
by David L. Witt | Apr 6, 2020 | Endangered, Gallery
Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) The Thought, Reproduction from original drawing, 1901, collection of the Academy for the Love of Learning. The mastery of mankind (literally, a white man) over nature. (The regenerative aspect of nature is represented by a bird that...
