American Golden Age Illustrator, 1882-1945 1882-1945,was an American artist and illustrator. He was the star pupil of the 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 work for which he is best known. Wyeth was a realist painter just as 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,   Related Paintings of NC Wyeth :. | -and making it into a great cross i set it up on the shore where i first landed | Aunt Jemima at eh Columbian Exposition in 1893 | The Battle of Wilson-s Creek | Sitting up Cross-legged with each hand holding a gun from which came thin wisps of smoke | And in the morning i took the bible and beginning at the new testament i began seriously to read it |
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