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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
Adventures Of Richard Hannay (1919)
Richard Hannay is an ordinary fellow caught up in extraordinary events in England and Scotland. This volume contains The Thirty-nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1931)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
N. C. Wyeth
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919)
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ben Ames Williams
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)
An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Beth Norvell (1907)
A story of Western mining camps and one-night stands.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Randall Parrish
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1916)
An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Blackfeet Indian Stories (1913)
A collection of BlackfeetIndian legends of creation, tradition, and fire-side stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George Bird Grinnell
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Blair’s Attic (1929)
A Cape Cod tale about memory and unreliable narrators.
Author(s):
Freeman Lincoln
Joseph C. Lincoln
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Botany Bay (1941)
Hugh Tallant, an American living in England is convicted of highway robbery and sent to the Australian penal colony in the ‘First Fleet.’
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Bounty Trilogy (1940)
An omnibus edition of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn’s Island.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Boy’s King Arthur (1917)
A retelling of the Arthurian romances taken from Sir Thomas Malory. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Sidney Lanier
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Boys of St. Timothy’s (1904)
A classic story of school boys.
Author(s):
Arthur Stanwood Pier
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Candle in the Wilderness (1930)
A historical novel that transports back to the tumultuous era of the seventeenth century in the New World.
Author(s):
Irving Bacheller
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)
Author(s):
Rafael Sabatini
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Horatio Hornblower (3 volumes) (1939)
This uniform three volume set includes Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Horatio Hornblower (omnibus) (1939)
This omnibus volume contains the first three adventures of Horatio Hornblower, R.N. Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colors.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Children’s Longfellow (1908)
This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
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The Children’s Own Longfellow (1908)
This version contains only eight poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
Commodore Hornblower (1945)
Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower, R.N. leads a squadron of British naval vessels on a military and diplomatic mission in the Baltic Sea.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1920)
Longfellow’s account of the rivalry of Miles Standish and John Alden for the hand of the fair Priscilla. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth