by David L. Witt | Apr 3, 2025 | Seton Essays
Blanca’s Head. Life Study, 1894, by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Also, check out this wonderful new film about wolves and Hopi culture. The Gray-Wolf Numbers of...
by David L. Witt | Jan 31, 2022 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
Seton canine sketch, undated Dear Lobo, It has been a year since I last wrote and 128 years since your untimely passing. A lot has happened since then but so little has changed. Don’t Pay Attention Human nature, for instance. You wouldn’t know about movies since they...
by David L. Witt | Jul 26, 2021 | Seton Artwork
Wolf and Deer, N.D., Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 3/4” (40.5 x 57.6cm), ALL#4027. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), British, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1931 The ancient contest between predator and prey plays out in a flash. Wolf and deer focus solely on one another as all...
by David L. Witt | Feb 2, 2020 | Gallery, More Beautiful and Amazing
Featured Image: Meredith Feniak, Restoring Order, Ink and charcoal/2019 “More Beautiful and Amazing” Seton Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 Like so many others (millions of readers over the past 126 years) I first connected with Seton in an emotional way after reading the...
by David L. Witt | Aug 17, 2018 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
Undated Seton Wolf Sketch Part I Seton had planned to spend the winter of 1893-1894 at his home in Toronto, and with luck, in New York as well. His professional future as an illustrator (and later, as a writer) resided in the American city. His manic work schedule,...
