N.C.WYETH: Classic Story Art

by N.C. Wyeth, Leonard Stevens (Editor)

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882- 1945), better known as N.C. Wyeth was an american painter and illustrator. During his lifetime he painted upwards of 3,000 pictures and illustrated over 100 books. From the early age of 20 his first commissions were for stories in prominent American periodicals including McClure's, Outing and Scribner's Magazines. This soon led to him being in demand from book publishers illustrating many classic books such as Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Rip Van Winkle and Robinson Crusoe.This large format book features over 220 beautifully reproduced examples of Wyeth's colour paintings. It showcases all the illustrations from classic novels and stories by some of the great authors, such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many more. A comprehensive collection that is certain to delight lovers of the great American artists from the 'Golden Age' of illustration.

122 pages, Paperback

Published March 5, 2020

About the author

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 one into the other."

He is the father of Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, both well-known American painters.