by David L. Witt | Dec 17, 2019 | Gallery, More Beautiful and Amazing
“More Beautiful and Amazing” Seton Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 I visited Mukta’s Taos studio to choose these prints for the Academy for the Love of Learning “More Beautiful and Amazing” exhibition. Her words follow below, followed by the Seton comments. In this...
by David L. Witt | Dec 11, 2019 | Gallery, More Beautiful and Amazing
“More Beautiful and Amazing” Seton Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 I invited Bob Hare to show a gouache on paper in the 2019-2020 exhibition at the Academy for the Love of Learning, “More Beautiful and Amazing.” I have included his words directly below, followed with a...
by David L. Witt | Dec 6, 2019 | Gallery, More Beautiful and Amazing
The 2019 Seton exhibition at the Academy for the Love of Learning features fifteen artists. “More Beautiful and Amazing” matches the work of fourteen contemporary artists plus Ernest Thompson Seton to quotes by Seton. The quotes, shown on labels next to the artwork,...
by David L. Witt | Nov 14, 2019 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
I have seen only two mountain lions. One huge animal was patiently standing beside a highway near Cimarron, New Mexico, waiting for traffic to pass so he could safely cross. The other I found when crawling through dense shrubbery at night, without a flashlight,...
by David L. Witt | Nov 14, 2019 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
Bobcat Bobcats are a curious lot. I know three people who within the last couple of years have had one of these beautiful felines come up to their houses and take a look into a window. Peeping toms? At the beginning of November, I saw one—very dark colored—cross the...
by David L. Witt | Nov 13, 2019 | Gallery, Seton Artwork
Seton quotes [John] Audubon & [John] Bachman from Quadrupeds of North America (1849-1851) regarding an encounter with a jaguar. One of the great creatures was following a Colonel Hays, apparently out of curiosity. Hays noted that the cat was looking “’right in his...
