Artist of the day, July 4: N. C. Wyeth, an American artist and illustrator (#736)

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882 – 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. During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 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 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.

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N.C. Wyeth Studio

1906, One more step, Mr. Hands, and I'll blow your brains out!

1907, Louise Loved to Climb to the Summit on One of the Barren Hills Flanking the River, and Stand There While the Wind Blew

1907, Painting of Native American

1907, Painting of Native American

1907, The Silent Fisherman

1907, What is Your Name, My Boy

1908, The Scythers

1909, Self-portrait with Palette

1910, The Artist's Studio, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

1911, Billy Bones

1911, Black Spot

1911, Blind Pew

1911, Routs Black Dog

1911, The Frontiersman Pupular Magazine cover Illustration

1915, The Studio

1916, The astrologer emptied the whole of the bowl into the bottle

1917, Smokey Face

1917, The Passing of Robin Hood

1917-21, Pyle's Barn

1918, Captain Nemo

1919, The Boy’s King Arthur

1921, The Storybook

1922, And when they came to the sword that the hand held, King Arthur took it up

1922, I am Sir Launcelot du Lake, King Ban’s son of Benwick, and knight of the Round Table

1922, Lancelot and Guenevere

1922, Merlin Taking Away The Infant Arthur

1922, Rip Van Winkle book cover

1922, Sir Mador's spear brake all to pieces, but the other's spear held

1922, The lady Lyoness had the dwarf in examination

1922, The Wrestling Match at the "Pied Merlin"

1923, The Giant

1924, David Balfour

1936,  The Drowning

1937,  Eight Bells

1938, Deep Cove Lobster Man

1939, Island Funeral

1940,  Washington at Yorktown

1945, The Homecoming