Word: wyeth
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...visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week, this was no mere art exhibition: it was a trip back through all the hallowed haunts of childhood, from Treasure Island to Sherwood Forest to Stirling Castle. The artist? None other than famed Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth...
...managed to give flesh and blood to the characters of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Fenimore Cooper without betraying the imaginations of generations of children. Before his death in 1945, Wyeth had turned out nearly 7,000 illustrations, murals and paintings, including 16 editions of Scribner's Illustrated Classics...
...that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...
...urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that by century's end, one concrete conurbation will reach from Portland, Me., to Norfolk...
...mystique" with relentless single-mindedness. She asked to be introduced to women law students before Friday night's Law School Forum, not to find out what they were thinking, but because she needed more material on young women's professional goals for her new book. while we walked to Wyeth Hall to have tea with the women, I mentioned a Harvard professor's book about seventeenth century merchants. Mrs. Friedan immediately interrupted, "Doesn't his wife collaborate on some of his stuff? She does? What her name?" Pulling out a note book, she asked if we knew any other wife...