Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complic ...

. He was the pupil of

Howard Pyle Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began ...

and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books — 25 of them for ''

Scribner's Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Ra ...

'', the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. The first of these, ''

Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...

'', 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 Andrew Newell Wyeth ( ; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In his ...

and the grandfather of

Jamie Wyeth James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is an American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition — painter ...

, both also well-known American painters.

Early life

Wyeth was born in 1882, in

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...

to parents Andrew Newell Wyeth II and Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth. An ancestor, Nicholas Wyeth, a stonemason, came to Massachusetts from England in 1645. Later ancestors were prominent participants in the French and Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the American Civil War, passing down rich oral histories and tradition to Wyeth and his family and providing subject matter for his art, which was deeply felt. His maternal ancestors came from Switzerland, and during her childhood, his mother was acquainted with literary giants Henry David Thoreau and

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely tran ...

. His literary appreciation and artistic talents appear to have come from her. He was the oldest of four brothers who spent much time hunting, fishing, and enjoying other outdoor pursuits, and doing chores on their farm. His varied youthful activities and his naturally astute sense of observation later aided the authenticity of his illustrations and obviated the need for models: "When I paint a figure on horseback, a man plowing, or a woman buffeted by the wind, I have an acute sense of the muscle strain." His mother encouraged his early inclination toward art. Wyeth was doing excellent watercolor paintings by the age of twelve. He went to Mechanics Arts School to learn drafting, and then Massachusetts Normal Art School, now

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...

, where painting instructor Richard Andrew advised him to become an illustrator, and then the

Eric Pape Frederic L. Pape (October 17, 1870 – November 7, 1938), known as Eric Pape, was an American painter, engraver, sculptor, and illustrator. Early life Pape was born in San Francisco, California, on October 17, 1870 to Friederich Ludwig and ...

School of Art to learn illustration, under George Loftus Noyes and Charles W. Reed.

Career

Wyeth traveled to the Brandywine Valley to study with

, eventually settling in

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania Chadds Ford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Delaware and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, United States, comprising the unincorporated communities of Chadds Ford and Chadds Ford Knoll. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census ...

. A bucking bronco for the cover of ''

The Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely ...

'' on February 21, 1903, was Wyeth's first commission as an illustrator. That year he described his work as "true, solid American subjects—nothing foreign about them". It was a spectacular accomplishment for the twenty-year-old Wyeth, after just a few months under Pyle's tutelage. In 1904, the same magazine commissioned him to illustrate a Western story, and Pyle urged Wyeth to go West to acquire direct knowledge, much as

Zane Grey Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American fronti ...

had done for his Western novels. In Colorado, he worked as a cowboy alongside the professional "punchers", moving cattle and doing ranch chores. He visited the Navajo in Arizona and New Mexico and gained an understanding of aboriginal American culture. When his money was stolen, he worked as a mail carrier, riding between the Two Grey Hills, New Mexico trading post and Fort Defiance, Arizona, to earn enough to get back home. He wrote home, "The life is wonderful, strange—the fascination of it clutches me like some unseen animal—it seems to whisper, 'Come back, you belong here, this is your real home.'" On a second trip two years later, he collected information on mining and brought home costumes and artifacts, including cowboy and aboriginal American clothing. His early trips to the western United States inspired a period of images of cowboys and

aboriginal Americans The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Am ...

that dramatized the

Old West The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial ...

. Upon returning to Chadds Ford, he painted a series of farm scenes for ''

'', finding the landscape less dramatic than that of the West but nonetheless a rich environment for his art: "Everything lies in its subtleties, everything is so gentle and simple, so unaffected." His painting ''Mowing'' (1907), not done for illustration, was among his most successful images of rural life. In 1906, Wyeth had married Carolyn Brenneman Bockius of Wilmington. In 1908 they moved to Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, along the Brandywine Creek. The Wyeths created a stimulating household for their talented children

, Henriette Wyeth Hurd,

Carolyn Wyeth Carolyn Wyeth ( ; 1909–1994), daughter of N.C. Wyeth and sister of Andrew Wyeth, was a well-known artist in her own right. Her hometown was Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. She worked and taught out of N. C. Wyeth House and Studio. Her nephew, Jamie ...

Ann Wyeth McCoy American composer, pianist and painter Ann Wyeth McCoy (March 15, 1915 - November 10, 2005) was the youngest daughter of artist-illustrator N. C. Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth and the fourth of his five children. She was born in Chadds Ford Historic District, ...

, and Nathaniel C. Wyeth. Wyeth was very sociable, and frequent visitors included

F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...

Joseph Hergesheimer Joseph Hergesheimer (February 15, 1880 – April 25, 1954) was an American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy. Early life Hergesheimer was born on February 15, 1880 Phil ...

Hugh Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among th ...

, Lillian Gish, and John Gilbert. According to Andrew, who spent the most time with his father due to his sickly childhood, Wyeth was a strict but patient father who did not talk down to his children. His hard work as an illustrator gave his family the financial freedom to follow their own artistic and scientific pursuits. Andrew went on to become one of the foremost American painters of the second half of the 20th century, and both Henriette and Carolyn became painters also; Ann became a painter 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 Wyeth's protégés, Peter Hurd and John W. McCoy. Wyeth is the grandfather of painters

and Michael Hurd, and the musician

Howard Wyeth Howard Pyle Wyeth (April 22, 1944 – March 27, 1996), also known as Howie Wyeth, was an American drummer and pianist. Wyeth is remembered for work with the saxophonist James Moody, the rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, the electric guitarist L ...

. By 1911, Wyeth began to move away from Western subjects and on to illustrating classic literature. He painted a series for an edition of ''

'' (1911), by

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

, thought by many to be his finest group of illustrations. The set made him famous, and the proceeds from this great success paid for his house and studio. He also illustrated editions of '' Kidnapped'' (1913), ''

Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is dep ...

'' (1917), ''

The Last of the Mohicans ''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the ''Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinder ...

'' (1919), ''

Robinson Crusoe ''Robinson Crusoe'' () is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a tra ...

'' (1920), ''

Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls aslee ...

'' (1921), ''

The White Company ''The White Company'' is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward ...

'' (1922), and ''

The Yearling ''The Yearling'' is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was the best-selling n ...

'' (1939). He did work for prominent periodicals, including '' Century'', ''

Harper's Monthly ''Harper's Magazine'' is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. (''Scientific American'' is older, b ...

'', '' Ladies' Home Journal'', ''

McClure's ''McClure's'' or ''McClure's Magazine'' (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism ( investigative, wa ...

'', '' Outing'', ''

The Popular Magazine ''The Popular Magazine'' was an early American literary magazine that ran for 612 issues from November 1903 to October 1931. It featured short fiction, novellas, serialized larger works, and even entire short novels. The magazine's subject matter ...

'', and

. By 1914, Wyeth loathed the commercialism upon which he became dependent, and for the rest of his life he battled internally over his capitulation, accusing himself of having "bitched myself with the accursed success in skin-deep pictures and illustrations". He complained of money men "who want to buy me piecemeal" and that "an illustration must be made practical, not only in its dramatic statement, but it must be a thing that will adapt itself to the engravers' and printers' limitations. This fact alone kills that underlying inspiration to create thought. Instead of expressing that inner feeling, you express the outward thought… or imitation of that feeling." Wyeth also did posters, calendars, and advertisements for clients such as

Lucky Strike Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco group. Individual cigarettes of the brand are often referred to colloquially as "Luckies." Throughout their 150 year history, Lucky Strike has had fluctuating ...

Cream of Wheat Cream of Wheat is an American brand of farina, a type of breakfast porridge mix made from wheat middlings. It looks similar to grits, but is smoother in texture since it is made with ground wheat kernels instead of ground corn. It was first ...

, and

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. Originally marketed as a temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlant ...

, as well as paintings of Beethoven, Wagner, and Liszt for Steinway & Sons. He painted murals of historical and allegorical subjects for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Westtown School, the First National Bank of Boston, the Hotel Roosevelt, the Franklin Savings Bank, the National Geographic Society, the Wilmington Savings Fund Society, and other public and private buildings. During both World Wars, he contributed patriotic images to government and private agencies. Wyeth was a member of The Franklin Inn Club in Philadelphia. Self-portrait by N

His nonillustrative portrait and landscape paintings changed dramatically in style throughout his life as he experimented first with impressionism in the 1910s (feeling an affinity with the nearby "New Hope Group"), the principles of the divisionist painter Giovanni Segantini, then by the 1930s veering to the realistic American regionalism of Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, painting with thin oils and, occasionally, egg tempera. That was the medium favored by his son Andrew, and introduced to both of them by his son-in-law Peter Hurd. Wyeth worked rapidly and experimented constantly, often working on a larger scale than necessary, befitting his energetic and grand vision which often harked back to his ancestral past. He could conceive, sketch and paint a large painting in as little as three hours.

Death and legacy

In June 1945, he had received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. Wyeth was a member of the National Academy, the Society of Illustrators, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the Fellowship of the

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Chester County Art Association, and the

Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artis ...

. In October 1945, Wyeth and his grandson (Nathaniel C. Wyeth's son) were killed when the automobile they were riding in was struck by a freight train at a railway crossing (39.870747°, −75.576979°) near his Chadds Ford home. At the time, Wyeth had been working on an ambitious series of murals for the

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, wi ...

depicting the Pilgrims at Plymouth, a series completed by Andrew Wyeth and John McCoy. Significant public collections of Wyeth's work are on display at the

Brandywine River Museum The Brandywine Museum of Art is a museum of regional and American art located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Brandywine Creek. The museum showcases the work of Andrew Wyeth, a major American realist painter, an ...

in Chadds Ford, in Maine at the

Portland Museum of Art The Portland Museum of Art, or PMA, is the largest and oldest public art institution in the U.S. state of Maine. Founded as the Portland Society of Art in 1882. It is located in the downtown area known as The Arts District in Portland, Maine. ...

, and at the

Farnsworth Art Museum The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, United States, is an art museum that specializes in American art. Its permanent collection includes works by such artists as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Henry La ...

Rockland, Maine Rockland is a city in Knox County, Maine, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. It is the county seat of Knox County, Maine, Knox County. The city is a popular tourist destination ...

. The Brandywine River Museum offers tours of the N. C. Wyeth House and Studio in Chadds Ford. His home and studio were designated a

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

in 1997, and are open to the public. His studio is set up just as he left it — the palette he used on the day of his death sits by his last canvas.

Bibliography

* Stevenson, R. L. - ''Treasure Island'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1911) * Stevenson, R. L. - ''Kidnapped'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913) * Clemens, S. - ''The Mysterious Stranger'' (Harper, 1916) * Stevenson, R. L. - ''The Black Arrow'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1916) * Creswick, P. - ''Robin Hood'' (David McKay, Philadelphia, 1917) * Verne, J. - ''The Mysterious Island'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1918) * Cooper, J. F. - ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1919) * Malory, T. - ''The Boy's King Arthur'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920) * Kingsley, C. - ''Westward Ho!'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920) * Defoe, D. - ''Robinson Crusoe'' (Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1920) * Irving, W. - ''Rip Van Winkle'' (David McKay, Philadelphia, 1921) * Longfellow, H. W. - ''The Courtship of Miles Standish (''Harrap, 1921) * MacSpadden, J.W. & Wilson, C. - ''Robin Hood'' (Harrap, 1921) * Porter, J. - ''The Scottish Chiefs'' (Hodder, 1921) * Doyle, A. C. - ''The White Company'' (Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1922) * Matthews, J. B. - ''Poems of American Patriotism'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1922) * Bullfinch, T. - ''Legends of Charlemagne'' (David McKay, Philadelphia, 1924) * Stevenson, R. L. - ''David Balfour'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924) * Cooper, J. F. - ''The Deerslayer'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925) * Parkman, F. - ''The Oregon Trial'' (Little Brown, 1925) * Verne, J. - ''Michael Strogoff'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927) * Boyd, J. - ''Drums (Char''les Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928) * Homer - ''The Odyssey (Hou''ghton, 1929) * Rollins, P. A. - ''Jinglebob'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1930) * ____ ''The Parables of Jesus (Davi''d McKay, Philadelphia, 1931) * Fox, J. W. - ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931) * Thoreau, H. D. - ''Men of Concord'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1936) * Jackson, H. M. H. - ''Ramona'' (Little Brown, 1939) * Rawlings, M. K. - ''The Yearling'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939)

Other works

*''Mowing'' (1907) *''Long John Silver and Hawkins'' (1911) *''The Long Roll'' (1911) *''The Great Train Robbery'' (1912) *''Cease Firing'' (1912) *''The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the North'' (1912) *''The Fence Builders'' (1915) *''The Mysterious Stranger'' (1916) *''The Scottish Chiefs'' (1921) by

Jane Porter Jane Porter (3 December 1775 – 24 May 1850) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Her bestselling novels, ''Thaddeus of Warsaw'' (1803) and ''The Scottish Chiefs'' (1810) are seen as among the earliest historical ...

(originally published 1809) *''Stand and Deliver'' (1921) *''Rip Van Winkle'' (1921) *''The Giant'' (1922) *''Drums'' (1925, reissued in 1928 and 1953) a book by James Boyd with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth and *''

The Deerslayer ''The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path'' (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper's last novel in his ''Leatherstocking Tales''. Its 1740–1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leathers ...

'' (

Scribners Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawli ...

, 1925, reissued in 1929) by James Fenimore Cooper (originally published 1841) *''

Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States ''Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States'' is a large-scale oil painting completed in 1930 by American artist N. C. Wyeth of president-elect George ...

'' (1930), a 17-foot by 12-foot painting *''Apotheosis of the Family'' (1932): a 60-foot-by-19-foot

mural A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage. Word mural in art The word ''mural'' is a Spani ...

including likenesses of members of the Wyeth family, located in a building in downtown

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington (Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...

*''Dying Winter'' (1934) *''Men of Concord and some others as portrayed in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau'' (1936), a book edited by Francis H. Allen, with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth *''The Alchemist'' (1937) * ''They Took Their Wives with Them on Their Cruises'' (1938) *''Deep Cove Lobsterman'' (1939) *''The War Letter'' (1944) *''Nightfall'' (1945)

Gallery

File:Sat Eve Post Cover N. C. Wyeth 1905 12 09.jpg, ''

'', cover illustration, File:Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York - N. C. Wyeth, at TESU.jpg, '' Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789'' portraying

George Washington's reception at Trenton George Washington's reception at Trenton was a celebration hosted by the Ladies of Trenton social club on April 21, 1789, in Trenton, New Jersey, as George Washington, then president-elect, journeyed from his home at Mount Vernon to his first ...

, 1930 File:They Took Their Wives with Them on Their Cruises, by N.C. Wyeth, c. 1938, oil on board - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07043.jpg, ''They Took Their Wives with Them on Their Cruises'', File:Uncle sam war bonds.jpg, ''Fighting Uncle Sam'', 1942 US Treasury poster

Notes

External links

Victoria Browning Wyeth discusses her family's art on ''Conversations from Penn State''

* ttp://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wyeth.htm N. C. Wyeth Biography
''Bronco Buster''
Cream of Wheat advertisement 1906 or 1907, courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Arts

* ttps://triarte.brynmawr.edu/objects-1/info/164603 N. C. Wyeth, ''Legend of Charlemagne'', 1924, oil on canvas, from Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections
N. C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue raisonné from the

Illustration ''Thor's Journey with the Giant Skrymir'' c. 1920

N. C. Wyeth, ''The Alchemist'', oil on canvas, 1937
photograph of painting from the Science History Institute * *
N. C. Wyeth Book Illustrations
a
Golden Age Book Illustrations Archive
* *
The King's Henchman
' (1927), Steinway & Sons ad. ("The painting depicts a scene from the opera "The King's Henchman," which, with music by Deems Taylor and libretto by Edna St. Vincent Millay, had its premier in 1927.") {{DEFAULTSORT:Wyeth, N. C. 1882 births 1945 deaths Wyeth family People from Needham, Massachusetts American people of English descent American illustrators 20th-century American painters 20th-century male artists American male painters Artists of the American West Painters from Pennsylvania Road incident deaths in Pennsylvania Treasure Island People from Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania Members of the Salmagundi Club Artists from Massachusetts Burials at Birmingham-Lafayette Cemetery Railway accident deaths in the United States