by David L. Witt | Apr 20, 2020 | Seton Biography
Hawk study (drawing) by Joseph Wolf drawing from Seton’s personal collection Seton embarked for London in June of 1890, made a brief sojourn to Paris in August, but returned to England for the autumn and early winter. He had been disappointed in France “to find the...
by David L. Witt | Apr 15, 2020 | Seton Biography
Untitled, ca. 1880s, Ernest Thompson Seton Brief study of Seton’s day-by-day activity turns up a remarkable restlessness: He seldom remained in one place for long. While the Golden Days of his youth came to end as he decided to settle into a career at the end of 1883,...
by David L. Witt | Mar 30, 2020 | Seton Biography
Great Ring-Billed Gull, Academy for the Love of Learning Upon his return from London (and abandonment of life as an art student), Seton moved back in with his parents for what must have seemed an interminable five months. Apparently the only thing he and his father...
by David L. Witt | Mar 26, 2020 | Seton Biography
In 1879, Two weeks after his nineteenth birthday, Seton settled in London and “opened a new epoch in my life.” He became a literal starving artist. The featured photograph at the head of this essay is a self-portrait drawing from that period. A rustic from the...
by David L. Witt | Jan 12, 2020 | Seton Biography
Ernest Thompson Seton had an extraordinary influence on the world during his lifetime. Here are highlights. Detailed consideration for each section will be found elsewhere on this site. 1 Consciousness Raising about Wild Animals At the turn of the 20th century a...
by David L. Witt | Dec 29, 2019 | Seton Biography
Is an artist born naturally gifted with a talent for painting or is it a matter of nurture, or some of each? While we probably can’t know the answer to that for sure, Seton’s first formal painting is extraordinary. Hiking through the Don River Valley, in the woods...
