by David L. Witt | Jul 21, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Fox and Goats, 1881, Oil on canvas, 18 x 14 1/8” (45.7 x 35.6 cm), ALL#4011. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931 A mother goat wearing a leather collar, backed up against a cliff, defends her two kids against a fox. Camouflaged...
by David L. Witt | Jul 14, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Sharp-shinned Hawk, Oil on canvas on paperboard, 1876, 14 16 7/8” (35.56 x 42.8 cm), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931, ALL#5017 Seton painted his first major oil painting at the age of sixteen prior to beginning formal art...
by David L. Witt | Jul 13, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Fox and Mitten, after 1920, Oil on Masonite, 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 ” (50.5 x 60.3cm), ALL#5002. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931 Crossing a snowy field, a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) stops midstride, its attention arrested by an...
by David L. Witt | Jun 21, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Untitled landscape with White-tailed Deer, Oil/canvas, 1893, 12 11/16 x 20 7/16 (33x52cm) Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), (signed Ernest E. Thompson) British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931, ALL#5015 In the late autumn, prior to the onset of Ontario’s winter snow,...
by David L. Witt | Jun 14, 2021 | Seton Artwork
The Sleeping Wolf, 1891, Oil on canvas on plywood, 15 5/16 x 25 ¼” (38.9 x 64.2cm), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931, ALL#4044 Seton painted this work during one of his sojourns in Paris. The obliging model lived at the...
by David L. Witt | May 21, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Kit Fox and His kingdom (All image rights to Seton artwork reserved by the Academy for the Love of Learning. Click images to enlarge.) A single photograph can capture a limited amount of information about an animal and its environment. The drawing medium, however, can...
