Lobo le loup

Artist, naturalist and defender of Native Americans, Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) was right far too early. Through the individual fates of Lobo the wolf, the pacing mustang and Silverspot, he paints not a species but an exceptional being, blending natural history with the art of storytelling. These tales inspired Kipling’s Jungle Book and herald Jack London, bearing privileged witness to the American wilderness as it began to disappear.