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Fabulous old N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth crammed his children's-book illustrations with sunset skies, flashing weapons, taut sails, flowing tresses, war bonnets, redcoats and pieces of eight. Andrew Wyeth, his even more famous son, has gradually emptied his own pictures of all but the barest, palest...
American Romance. Wyeth is limited. Compared with such a robust realist as Velásquez, he seems hardly to believe in reality. Compared with such a profound explorer-in-imagination as Pieter Brueghel, he sits by the stove cozily sketching. In context, his art has eminence. But the context is...
Time was when fathers often passed the craft of painting on to their children, and sometimes created artistic dynasties of the first order. Some of the greatest painters of the Renaissance grew great at home. The practice never took hold in the rough and tumble of American life, though Revolutionary...
Lewis W. Douglas, best known to the general public as onetime U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1947-50), is proud of his Arizona heritage. In the past month, Douglas has indulged his natural pride by buying nine highly dramatic paintings of the Old West, all done in the early 1900s...
Another nurturing force was his father, N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, whose illustrations for such books as Treasure Island and The Last of the Mohicans lit the eyes of generations of children. "My father," Andy says fervently, "was big in his feeling and the way he lived. At Christmas...