by David L. Witt | Jun 29, 2026 | Curator's Notes
Seton Palace and the Forth Estuary by Alexander Keirincx. Image courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland. Seton Palace, located east of Edinburgh, Scotland, was one of the most important buildings of its kind in the seventeenth century. Two Artists, One View...
by David L. Witt | Jun 25, 2026 | Curator's Notes
George, Fifth Lord Seton and his family by Frans Pourbus the Elder. Image courtesy of the National Museums of Scotland Ernest Thompson Seton’s ancestor George Seton, surrounded by his family sat for a portrait in 1572. George Seton had survived the Battle of Langside...
by David L. Witt | May 29, 2026 | Curator's Notes
Art Historian with Monarch painting Monarch of the Glen, the famous painting of a Red Deer by Edward Landseer, influenced the art of Ernest Thompson Seton. One of the great treasures of Scotland’s National Galleries in the capital of Edinburgh, in person, the portrait...
by David L. Witt | Dec 30, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Wolf-less mountain in Scotland Ernest Thompson Seton wrote about his connection to Clan Cameron and to the name Seton. Seton-Thompson v. Thompson Seton He was so enamored of his Seton heritage that as a teenager he changed his last name from Thompson to Seton,...
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...
