THE GIANT
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N.C. Wyeth ( WY əth) was encouraged to draw when he was a child. When he was about 20 years old he began working for a magazine, the Saturday Evening Post. They sent him to study southwest culture and for three months he lived among the Indians and herded sheep. He sketched and painted pictures to show what life was like among the Indians.
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He married and he and his wife raised five children. Their son Andrew became one of America's foremost artists. Andrew, who was ill when he was a child, was homeschooled and his father taught him how to be an artist. Two more of their children, Henrietta and Carolyn, and also their grandson, Jamie, (Andrew's son) became artists. Jamie, when he was 21, painted a portrait of John F. Kennedy. Jamie had also been homeschooled and trained by his father.
N.C. studied with Howard Pyle, a man who gave free art lessons to students that he thought had a lot of artistic ability. Wyeth became a book illustrator. The first book he illustrated was Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island. During his lifetime he drew and painted about 3,000 pictures and illustrated 112 books.
Treasure Island
"One More Step, Mr. Hands"Enlarged view
Treasure Island
The Old SeamanEnlarged view
The Passing of
Robin HoodEnlarged view
In the 1930's he began painting a set of large murals for a life insurance company, but he and one of his grandsons were both killed in a car accident in 1945. His son Andrew and his son-in-law finished the work.
N.C. Wyeth 1920
RESEARCH LINKS
N.C. Wyeth
National Museum of American Illustration
Family History
N.C. Wyeth
See index in the left column
Paintings by Wyeth
from American Art Archives.
Wyeth Illustrations - Robinson Crusoe
Links for N.C. Wyeth
from Art Cyclopedia
Order a print of Giant
from Chimera Publishing
Kidnapped
By Robert Louis Stevenson / Simon & Schuster Trade Sales
David Balfour has never had an adventure. He has never spent a night camping in the Scottish Highlands. He has never sailed the high seas. He has never fought in a battle. In fact David Balfour has never even left home. All he knows is a quiet country life.All this changes after the death of his parents. He suddenly learns that he, David Balfour, is a man of wealth and standing, and that he is not destined for a simple life after all. All he needs to do to assume this new station in life is to travel to the town of Cramond, Scotland, to collect his inheritance from his father's younger brother, an uncle he had not even known existed. But David soon discovers that this is not as simple as it sounds, as he struggles to survive and outwit his treacherous uncle in this classic adventure story.
Original oil paintings by N. C. Wyeth capture the vitality of Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of fortune, camaraderie, betrayal, and independence.
Kidnapped
full view preview (another edition)
A LIBRARY OF
ONLINE BOOKS and BOOK PREVIEWS
Treasure Island: a young reader's edition
by Robert Louis Stevenson (selected pages) Order here
Kidnapped, a classic tale dramatised
by Keith West (selected pages) Order here
Westward Ho
by Charles Kingsley, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth 1920 (full view) Order here
Robinson Crusoe (Adapted for Young Readers)
by Mary Godolphin (selected pages) Order here
The Riverman
by Stewart Edward White, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and Clarence F. Underwood 1904 (full view) Order here
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse (1920 Reader)
by Olive Beaupre Miller, cover illustration by N.C. Wyeth (full view) Order here
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth 1914 (full view) Order here
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Large Print Edition)
by Elinore Stewart (selected pages) Order here
Read more about Elinore Pruitt Stewart here
Preview these Amazon books using the links below.
N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
by Robert D. San Souci, N.C. Wyeth (selected pages)
N.C. Wyeth: A Biography
by David Michaelis (selected pages)
Visions of Adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine artists
by Howard Pyle, Newell Convers Wyeth, John Edward Dell, Walt Reed (selected pages)
Treasure Island (Young Reader's Edition)
by Lisa Norby, Robert Louis Stevenson (review, no preview)
Guide to the Homes of Famous Pennsylvanians: The Wyeth Family
by Arthur P. Miller, Jr., Marjorie L. Miller (selected pages)
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defor, Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth (full view)
Puzzles on these pages courtesy of
Songs of Praise and Armored Penguin
Pictures courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Most Recent Comments ( See more comments on this page ) 2011-02-28
The picture and information of NC Wyeth is great; what a beautiful picture, I am going to use it on a cadet night; and somehow integrate it into a story. Beautiful art.
Debora Young
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