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 Learning)
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...
Included in the Academy’s collection of Seton art are depictions of cats, from lions to the household variety. Seton began his major work of natural history, Lives of Game Animals (1925) with cats. He was particularly struck by the physical similarity of cats within a...
While Seton worked in different art mediums, drawings in ink or pencil were the most frequent in a wide variety of subject matter. Visitors to the Academy’s Seton Gallery often comment on several unusual chairs which are both on display and still in use. They...
