N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
The Mysterious Island, 1918
Newell Convers Wyeth was born on October 22, 1882 in Needham, Massachusetts. Wyeth was a painter and illustrator whose first published work appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1903. He illustrated editions of books such as Treasure Island, The Yearling, Robinson Crusoe, The Last of the Mohicans, Kidnapped and Robin Hood. Wyeth lived in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania for most of his artistic career. The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford displays a significant collection of his work.
N.C. Wyeth was the father of American Artist Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth died in an automobile accident along with his grandson in 1945.
N.C. Wyeth’s handsome oil The Mysterious Island (1918) was the cover image for Jules Verne’s novel first published as L’Ile Mystérieuse in 1874. In addition to the cover, he made fourteen illustrations and a frontispiece for this volume, as well as dozens of pen and ink drawings. While Wyeth preferred Stevenson in terms of imagination and writing, he realized Verne’s book “offers splendid material for my brush.”
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