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...
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 | May 14, 2021 | Guest Writers
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, Robert W. Wood, 1907 (Check out Wood’s book.) Unfortunately for Seton, the Nature Faker controversy just would not die down. Having seemingly run its course in June 1907, it flared back up in the September issue of...
