N.C. Wyeth
Artist, Visual Artist
1882 – 1945
Who was N.C. Wyeth?
Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was his masterpiece and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just as 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."
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- Born
- Oct 22, 1882
Needham - Also known as
- Newell Convers Wyeth
- N. C Wyeth
- Spouses
- Carolyn Bockius Wyeth
(1908 - 1945/10/19)
- Carolyn Bockius Wyeth
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Needham
- Died
- Oct 19, 1945
Chadds Ford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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