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born: Needham, Massachusetts, US; 22 October 1882
died: Chadds Ford, PA, US; 19 October 1945 (The car he was driving was struck
by a train.)
wyet whyet
| 1898 | 16 | Mechanic Arts School in Boston, to learn drafting |
| 1899 | 17 | Graduated from MAS; went to Massachusetts Normal Arts School |
| 1901 | 19 | Studies at Eric Pape School of Art in Boston and with Charles Reed, a book illustrator |
| 1902 | 20 | Clifford Ashley convinces him to go to Wilmington, Delaware to attend the Howard Pyle School. First commercial sale for a painting of a bucking bronco and cowboy to the Saturday Evening Post for the cover of 21 Feb 1903. |
| 1904 | 22 | Trip to the West sponsored by Saturday Evening Post. |
| 1905 | 23 | Jan. Became engaged to Carolyn Bockius. Mar: Goes to Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration in Washington DC |
| 1906 | 24 | Feb: Second trip to the West this time for Outgoing Magazine Apr 16 Got married to Carolyn. Began to feel Pyle was taking advantage of him... began to hate Magazine work. |
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Onion House |
The Ore Wagon |
Bronco Buster |
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The Plains Herder |
The Pay Stage |
Winter. "Death" |
| 1907 | 25 | Rented a 45 acre farm in Chadds Ford 22 Oct: First daughter, Henriette, was born |
| 1909 | 27 | Convers visits the German Contemporary Exhibition in New York finds the European art "interesting". A Sheepherder of the Southwest written and illustrated by Convers appeared in Jan 1909 issue of Scribner's 26 Oct: Second daughter, Carolyn, was born |
| 1910 | 28 | Illustrates Arthur Conan Doyle's First Load Travels to Virginia to research illustrations for a Civil War Book by Mary Johnston "The Long Roll" |
| 1911 | 29 | Scribner's gives him Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island to Illustrate. Buys an 18 acre farm in Chadds Ford; names it: Wyndtryst First mural commission for four life-sized Indian pictures for Hotel Utica. 24 Oct: First son, Nathaniel Convers, was born. 14 Nov: Howard Pyle dies. |
| 1913 | 31 | Illustrates Robert Lewis Stevenson's: Kidnapped published by Scribner's |
| 1914 | 32 | World War II starts in Europe. Convers refuses to become a "war painter" for the magazine industry. |
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The First Cargo |
Old Pew (Blind Pew) |
Self Portrait |
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At the Cards in Cluny's Cage |
"We Must be in the Dungeons"
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The Astrologer |
| 1915 | 33 | 15 Mar: third daughter, Ann, was born Began teaching art to a group of four students |
| 1917 | 35 | 12 Jul: second son, Andrew, was born Illustrates |
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Last of the Chestnuts |
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Robin Hood and the Men of Greenwood |
Robin Meets Maid Marion |
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Sir Tristram and La Belle Isolde |
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The Fight in the Forest |
The Captives |
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Aunt Jemima at the Columbian Exposition
in 1893 |
John Oxenham |
Buttonwood Farm |
 Great Cross |
Foot Prints |
Bible Reading |
| 1920 | 38 | Buys a sea captains house in Port Clyde Maine; names it: "Eight Bells" |
| 1921 | 39 | Takes the family back to Needham Mass for a year. |
| 1923 | 41 | Family moves back to Pennsylvania. |
| 1925 | 43 | 11 Aug: His mother dies |
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The Giant |
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Iris and Oranges |
Onions |
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Old Kris |
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Francis Parkman |
An Indian War Party |
The Water Hole |
| 1931 | 48 | Style of landscapes and portraits changed. Painted surface became thinner. |
| 1937 | 55 | Egg tempera medium introduced in Chadds Ford by Peter Hurd, one of his sons-in-law. Began to work in a new style appropriate to egg tempera. His palette with egg tempera tends to be less vivid. Paintings in this new style are Deep Island Funeral(1939), The War Letter (1941), and Springhouse (1944), all shown below. |
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Cowboy Watering |
The Mayflower Compact |
George Washington at Yorktown |
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Daniel Boone |
Captain John Paul Jones |
Lewis and Clark |
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Island Funeral |
The War Letter |
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Covered Wagons |
Columbus Sights |
A New World in View |
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Springhouse |
| 1945 | 63 | Killed with one of his grandsons, Newell Convers Wyeth II, when his car was hit by a train. |
Places to look for N. C. Wyeth art: The Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, contains the largest collection of N.C. Wyeth's artwork, and offers tours of his Chadds Ford home and studio. The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine has many Wyeth paintings of the Maine coast, where he spent his summers from 1920 to 1945. The Wilmington Public Library and the Delaware Art Museum, in Wilmington, Delaware, the New York Public Library, in New York City, the Philadelphia Free Library, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, all have collections of his paintings. |
Pre WW II
North American Art
20th Century Art
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