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,...
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,...
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...
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...
Ernest Thompson Seton never saw a tiger in the wild since he did not travel outside of Europe and North American. He clearly admired them as subjects, creating several bold portraits. (All image rights reserved by the Academy for the Love of...
Seton’s drawings of big cats can come across not as generic “lion” or “tiger” but as actual portraits of individuals. Some of these were done at the London Zoo during his first trip abroad. One of Seton’s animal subjects, “Landseer’s Lion” was named for the English...
