by David L. Witt | Oct 30, 2019 | Curator's Notes, Exhibitions
I am seeking artists to take part in an exhibition slated for August 2020. Read on to learn about the organizing concepts behind “Endangered.” Before the Land Ethic Decades before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring or Aldo Leopold’s “land ethic,” Seton, through his art and...
by David L. Witt | Oct 26, 2019 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
While Seton worked in different art mediums, drawings in ink or pencil were the most frequent in a wide variety of subject matter. Visitors to the Academy’s Seton Gallery often comment on several unusual chairs which are both on display and still in use. They...
by David L. Witt | Oct 21, 2019 | Seton Essays
Seton’s early science writings are less known than his wildlife stories but demonstrated important insights. Roger Tory Peterson Writing in 1941 in the Preface of A Field Guide to the Western Birds, Roger Tory Peterson gave credit to Seton’s influential work: “It was...
by David L. Witt | Oct 9, 2019 | Curator's Notes
The late 19th century witnessed two unrelated examples of collapse. One was the mass slaughter of birds for the fashion industry. Deer, elk, bighorn sheep and bison were on the ropes as well after a particularly vicious century of relentless killing. The other...
by David L. Witt | Oct 4, 2019 | Seton Biography
There is a wonderful passage in Two Little Savages (and yes, we can only wish that he had chosen a different title) where the adult Seton reflects on what the boy Seton was thinking in the 1870s (referring to himself as “Yan.”). He spent increasing amounts of time,...
