by David L. Witt | Nov 6, 2023 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
All illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton Credit Line: Academy for the Love of Learning, Santa Fe, New Mexico. All rights reserved. Reproduction permission. Illustration Group Two And the flap of wings goes on with this second helping of winged images. Click to...
by David L. Witt | Oct 23, 2023 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
All illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton; above: detail of ALL #362 Seton landed several early design commissions, including one for a series of bird illustrations in 1881. This soon led to more challenging assignments. Comparing his rendering ability in 1881 to...
by David L. Witt | Sep 18, 2023 | Seton Biography
Illustration by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1884 Taming of this Shrew is not a Seton wildlife story, although the daily grind of a Shrew hunting for worms and spiders might have been interesting. (Or not?) This particular little animal hero was given the special...
by David L. Witt | Aug 15, 2023 | Curator's Notes
Witch Hunt from photos.com On this date in 1040, the future Scot King known to us as MacBeth defeated a rival boss Duncan I to become to new boss—for 17 years until he met the same fate as Duncan. There is always a faster gun in town, at least eventually, and you are...
by David L. Witt | Aug 9, 2023 | Curator's Notes
Edinburgh Castle: JÖrg Angeli on unsplash.com If I have my geography even partially figured out, then, that part of Scotland bordering the North Sea, East Lothian, has been assigned a number of names: The Kingdom of Gododdin in the 500s (a Brittonic people of ancient...
