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 | Jul 26, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Wolf and Deer, N.D., Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 3/4” (40.5 x 57.6cm), ALL#4027. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931 The ancient contest between predator and prey plays out in a flash. Wolf and deer focus solely on one another as all...
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...
