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N.C. Wyeth


Born
January 01, 1882

Died
January 01, 1945

Genre
Art, Illustration


Newell Convers Wyeth was an American artist and illustrator. He was a pupil of Howard Pyle during the Golden Age of Illustration.

During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, twenty-five of them for the Scribner Classics, for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from o ...more

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Great Illustrations by N.C....
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Great Stories of the Sea an...
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The Wyeths: The Letters of ...
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4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions
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Vandemark's Folly
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N.C. Wyeth's Wild West
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N. C. Wyeth 24 Art Cards: F...
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The Western World of N.C. W...
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Precious Time
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The Mysterious Island
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N.C. Wyeth - Maine: A Folio...
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