MAJOR SETON EXHIBITION IN SANTA FE OPENS MAY 23

Opening May 23 at the New Mexico History Museum, Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton dedicates itself to telling the often overlooked story of the conservationist, author, artist, lecturer and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Ernest Thompson Seton’s impact on America’s conservation movement was immeasurable but, today is largely forgotten. Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton sets out to change that.

The exhibition will run  through May 8, 2011 in the museum’s second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Changing Exhibitions Gallery. It's accompanied by a catalog, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2010), with a foreword written by Sir David Attenborough.

Curated by New Mexico art historian David L. Witt, director of the Seton Legacy Project for the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, Wild at Heart marks the first major exhibition about Seton. Most of the art and artifacts – more than 30 original paintings and drawings by Seton, books, personal memorabilia, and photographs – have been seldom if ever seen. Most of the items on loan to the exhibit come from the Academy for the Love of Learning and from the Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library at the Philmont Ranch in Cimarron, N.M.

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MEMORIALS AND TRIBUTES
CANADA
  • Ernest Thompson Seton Park, Toronto, Ontario
  • Historic Plaque, Lindsay, Ontario
  • The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba
  • Seton Bridge, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba
  • Historic Plaque and Seton Woodland Park, on the Trans Canada Highway east of Carberry, Manitoba
  • Seton Coulee, near Runnymeade, Saskatchewan
  • The Ernest Thompson Seton Medal - awarded annually by the Manitoba Naturalists Society
UNITED KINGDOM
  • Plaque at Birthplace, Wellington Terrace, South Shields, Durham
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • Seton Village, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Registered National Historic Landmark and a New Mexico State Cultural Property
  • The Ernest Thompson Seton Award - Campfire Girls of America
  • The International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies -The Ernest Thompson Seton Award
  • The Boy Scouts of America - The 1910 Society - Ernest Thompson Seton level
  • Ernest Thompson Seton Scout Reservation, Greenwich Council, Boy Scouts of America
  • Camp Fire USA - The Ernest Thompson Seton Award
FILM TRIBUTES
  • Ernest Thompson Seton, Keeper of the Wild. (1974). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Seton's Manitoba. (1984). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Lobo:  The Wolf That Changed America.  (2008).  BBC2 Natural Wonders series.