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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
The Parables of Jesus (1931)
A collection of parables with short explications.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
S. Parkes Cadman
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Pike County Ballads (1912)
Post civil war ballads from Pike County, Illinois - across the river from Hannibal, Missouri - the dialect is similar. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Hay
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Poems of American Patriotism (1922)
A selection of poems celebrating America’s martial heritage from the Boston tea party to the end of World War I. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Ramona (1939)
Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.
Author(s):
Helen Hunt Jackson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Rip Van Winkle (1921)
Out hunting, Rip plays at bowls with the men of the mountains and drinks too deeply of their liquor. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Robin Hood (1917)
The legends of Robin Hood are recounted by Paul Creswick. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Paul Creswick
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Robin Hood (1957)
The legends of Robin Hood are recounted by Paul Creswick.
Author(s):
Paul Creswick
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Robinson Crusoe (1920)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Robinson Crusoe (1957)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Salute to Adventurers (1930)
Adventures of a Scotch lad in Virginia in the early days of colonization.
The cover image shown above is from the 1915 edition.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Sampo (1912)
A collection of traditional tales from the Finnish Kalevala. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A School History of the United States (1924)
A history of the United States for school children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Martha Tucker Stephenson
Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
N. C. Wyeth
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The Scottish Chiefs (1921)
A historical novel about William Wallace and the Scots revolt against the English beginning in 1297. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Jane Porter
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Song of Hiawatha (1911)
Longfellow’s epic poem is based on American Indian legends. It is set in the Pictured Rock region along the south shore of Lake Superior. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Frederic Remington
N. C. Wyeth
The Steinway Collection of Paintings by American Artists (1919)
Brief lives of the great composers accompanied by paintings. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Huneker
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
Susanna and Sue (1909)
Susanna leaves her neglectful husband to stay with the Shakers, and manages to shake him up. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
Alice Barber Stephens
N. C. Wyeth
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1950)
Richard Hannay has returned to England from Rhodesia and is immediately embroiled in a German plot to steal British military secrets.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Treasure Island (1911)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
N. C. Wyeth
Tunes and Harmonies (1936)
A songbook for the elementary grades, this volume is illustrated by both N. C. Wyeth and Robert Lawson.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
N. C. Wyeth
Westward Ho! (1920)
Amyas Leigh sails from England with Francis Drake and becomes a freebooter or pirate in the Carribean. He later returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada. The novel is blighted by it virulent anti-Catholicsm. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth