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.)...
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...
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...
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...
