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...
by David L. Witt | Jan 6, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Seton Note on the Christmas Card Originals (shown below) At the age of 21 (in 1881) Seton received a bill for his upbringing from his father – or so he claimed. (If any other of the many children from that family was treated similarly, I haven’t found a record of it.)...
by David L. Witt | Nov 16, 2020 | Seton Artwork
Untitled Paintings by Seton – Click images to enlarge Landscape painting has a surprisingly short history. That is, where nature itself is the subject, not as backdrop for human activities and architecture. H.W. Janson’s massive History of Art doesn’t even list...
by David L. Witt | Nov 13, 2020 | Seton Artwork
Seton’s fame as a wildlife artist came in part from his ecological scene setting landscape backgrounds. His landscape drawings and paintings without animals are also highly accomplished. In this posting we will look at drawings. I have selected a several images...
