 In 1903, Seath was the first and only female contributor to the AAM exhibition organized by the Newspaper Artists’ Association which shows her acclaim in a primarily male world of newspaper illustration.The Art Association of Montreal published a registry of local Canadian artists on June 29, 1903 noting that Seath was the youngest of the artists to be working in black and white.In Seath’s time working as a successful commercial artist she was able to afford art classes at William Brymner’s Art Association of Montreal.