Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books, but feels that what children need in books today is not "blobs and treacle but heroic nourishment, a sense of wonder, and pictures with enough texture and detail to be worth poring over again and again." He remembers "getting up at dawn, creeping into the room where N.C. Wyeth's Scribner's Classics were kept, and long before I could read, brooding over the pictures in Robinson Crusoe, The Boy 's King Arthur and Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff...
...review." This week Foote and Sheppard collaborated in producing a section devoted entirely to children's books; it includes an article (by Sheppard) on Maurice Sendak, who has just illustrated a collection of Grimms' fairy tales, a four-page color insert of illustrations by Arthur Rackham, N.C. Wyeth and Peter Spier, plus brief reviews of a few of the year's best juvenile books...
...WYETH: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals edited by Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen Jr. 335 pages. Crown. $29.95. More than a dozen of N.C. Wyeth-illustrated Scribner's Classics (The Yearling, Westward Ho, The Black Arrow, The Deerslayer, etc.) are still in print in hardback from $6 to $10. This year Scribner's is offering fancy paperback editions, at $3.95, all with original color, of Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur...
...only reason Andrew Wyeth and other painters of Americana have ignored Steve is because they don't know he exists. He is a priceless relic of northern Massachusetts--an Ipswich clam digger who awakens before the sun rises and spends his early morning hours plunging his hands into sand and surf in search of hardshelled fish...
James A. Sharaf '59, attorney in the Office of General Counsel, said that students in Adams, Currier, North Houses and two graduate dorms, Ames and Wyeth Halls, have received "a pattern of calls that tend to blanket an entire building in the small hours of the morning between midnight...