N. C. Wyeth
| N.C. Wyeth | |
 N.C. Wyeth ca. 1920 | |
| Birth name | Newell Convers Wyeth |
| Born | October 22, 1882 Needham, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | October 19, 1945 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Famous works | Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe |
| Influenced by | Howard Pyle |
Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. Born in Needham, Massachusetts, he was the star pupil of Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.[1] Great Age of Illustration.....? In 1911 he painted a series of illustrations for an edition of the book, Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. He also illustrated editions of The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Robinson Crusoe, The Last of the Mohicans, Kidnapped and Robin Hood. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books,[2] 25 of them for Scribner's Illustrated Classics the work for which he is best known.[1]
Biography
Like Amercian illustrator Norman Rockwell Wyeth found early producing illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. A bucking bronco for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on February 21 1903 was Wyeth's first commission as an illustrator.[3] That year he described his work as, "true, solid American subjects–nothing foreign about them."[4] His early trips to the western United States inspired a period of images of cowboys and Native Americans that dramatized the Old West.[5]
Significant public collections of Wyeth's work are on display at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.
N.C. Wyeth died in an accident at a railway crossing along with his grandson (Nathaniel C. Wyeth's son) near his Chadds Ford home in 1945.
Legacy
As head of the Wyeth painting dynasty who lived and worked in picturesque Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, his life is "larger than his accomplishments."
He is father of artist Andrew Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, Carolyn Wyeth, Ann Wyeth McCoy, and Nathaniel C. Wyeth. Andrew, Henriette, and Carolyn became artists as well. Ann became an artist and composer. Nathaniel became an engineer for DuPont and worked on the team that invented the plastic soda bottle. Henriette and Ann married two of N.C.'s proteges, Peter Hurd and John W. McCoy. N.C. Wyeth is the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth and musician Howard Wyeth.[6]
Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft.[7] Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly.[5] 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."[7]
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Other works
- Mowing (1907)
- Long John Silver and Hawkins (1911)
- The Fence Builders (1915)
- Apotheosis of the Family (1932):[8] a 60-foot-by-19-foot mural including likenesses of members of the Wyeth family, located in a building in downtown Wilmington, Delaware[9]
- Dying Winter (1934)
- The Alchemist (1938)
- Deep Cover Lobsterman (1939)
- The War Letter (1944)
- Nightfall (1945)
- Stand and Deliver (19??) [9]
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- Allen, Douglas and Allen, Douglas, Jr. N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, (1972) ISBN 0517183358
- Michaelis, David. N.C. Wyeth: A Biography Alfred A. Knopf (1999) ISBN 0679426264
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ARTSEDGE, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (undated). N.C. Wyeth: A Short Biography. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ↑ Adams, Henry (June 2006). Wyeth's World. Smithsonian. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ↑ Gerson, Donna, Michelle Frisque, Beth Kean, and Elizabeth T. Mahoney (undated). Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project: Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945). University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ↑ American Art Archives (undated). N C Wyeth / Newell Convers Wyeth. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 barewalls.com (1996-2005). Newell Convers Wyeth. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ↑ Fisk, Dean (August 5 1998). FISKE-L: Re-Nicholas Wyeth / John Fiske & Sara Wyeth. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gopnik, Adam (November 15 1998). "Pictures Great," His Publisher Told Him, review of N. C. Wyeth by David Michaelis. New York Times. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- ↑ Milford, Maureen, "WSFS building fills void in city's center", Delaware News-Journal, 7 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Milford, Maureen, "Wanted: New home for Wyeth painting", Delaware News-Journal, 25 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
External links
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- "Virtual tour of N.C. Wyeth's studio", Brandywine River Museum, Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- "Robinson Crusoe text with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth", N. C. Wyeth, Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- "N.C. Wyeth Biography", BPIB, Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- "Bronco Buster", Artsmia, Retrieved May 21, 2007.
- "Lesson Plan for grades 9-12: N.C. Wyeth: The Art of Illustration", ArtsEdge, Retrieved May 21, 2007.
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