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N. C. Wyeth
(1882 - 1945)
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 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.”
Bibliography
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Deep Water Days (1929)
A collection of sea stories with illustrations by different artists.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Deerslayer (1925)
While written last, in 1841, The Deerslayer is chronologically the first in the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumpo, a European raised among American Indians, is the hero of the series.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Drums (1928)
This is the story of Johnny Fraser and his part in the Revolutionary War in the South.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Boyd
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1932)
Hans and Gretel Brinker’s father has been unable to work so they must help support the family, but they still have fun skating on the Dutch canals in winter.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
N. C. Wyeth
The Hurricane (1936)
The story of a hurricane that strikes a south Pacific island.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Jinglebob (1930)
This is an authentic tale of cattle ranching in the 1880’s.
Author(s):
Philip Ashton Rollins
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Kidnapped (1913)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Last of the Mohicans (1919)
This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales series, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Legends of Charlemagne (1924)
A collection of romances from medieval and renaissance Europe.
Author(s):
Thomas Bulfinch
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1931)
Author(s):
John Fox, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Man from the Norlands (1936)
Sir Richard Hannay gathers his old comrades to assist ‘the man from the Norlands’ to rescue his daughter.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Marauders of the Sea (1935)
This is an anthology of pirate stories, real and fiction.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
Michael Strogoff A Courier of the Czar (1927)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Mutiny on the Bounty (1978)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
My Bookhouse: In the Nursery (1920)
This first volume of the anthology includes nursery rhymes and poetry along with short folk and fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maginel Wright Enright
Milo Winter
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
My Bookhouse: The Treasure Chest (1920)
This volume of the anthology contains longer stories from famous authors. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Mysterious Island (1918)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Odyssey of Homer (1929)
This prose translation of the Odyssey aims to convey the full force of the Greek original.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth