We all know Andrew Wyeth and his sons...
But their father made dreams!
N.C. Wyeth
Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), 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.
[1] During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books,
[2] 25 of them for
Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known.
[1] The first of these,
Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a
realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft.
[3] Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly.
[4]
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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