Description
The Near Fine dust jacket, price clipped, very slight wear to edges, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Near Fine binding is marron paper over boards, gilt lettering on spine, color frontispiece. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 12.2″ tall x 9.2″ wide.
Stated: “d” printing
About the book (from the dust jacket)
A superb tribute to one of America’s foremost artists and illustrators, this magnificent volume fully reflects the wide-ranging imagination and great versatility of Newell Convers Wyeth the founder of an artistic dynasty that includes his son Andrew and his grandson James. Sumptuously illustrated with over three hundred reproductions (over one hundred in brilliant color), many reproduced here for the first time, the book traces Wyeth’s growing virtuosity in both the fine arts and commercial fields, from the work he produced as a student of the great Howard Pyle to his most mature tempera paintings.
Here is his best work in all the various fields-his illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals; his depictions of the Old West, inspired by the work of Frederic Remington and by his own travels into the Western mountains and cattle country; his renowned illustrations for children’s books; his classic commercial products; his romantic and poetic portraits of Indian life. The book brings to vivid life Wyeth’s great love of his Brandy-wine country in Pennsylvania-its rolling fields and wooded hillsides, its streams and its meadows and its farms-as well as the Maine coast, where many of his easel paintings were done. Here are his religious paintings, his splendid murals, and his stunning landscape paintings that expressed his deep love of nature and the out-of-doors. For, despite Wyeth’s success in the field of book and magazine illustration and his prominence as a mural painter, he cherished the rare moments when he was free to paint the things he knew best and that stirred him most-neighbors at work in the field, a rural scene, a quaint old house, a salty lobster, man-the simple native themes of his finest paintings.
But N. C. Wyeth is far more than just a book of paintings; it also offers a wealth of biographical detail about the artist himself using his letters, articles from contemporary magazines, and other sources, the text reveals how Wyeth was trained, how he worked, and how he felt about his painting. Moreover, the book contains an invaluable 1,200-entry, illustrated, complete bibliography with detailed information on all of N. C. Wyeth’s pictures and published writings, listing the books, periodicals, catalogues, collections, and other places his work appeared, and everything written about him-a comprehensive reference tool for everyone in the field.
This beautiful volume of N. C. Wyeth’s work is truly stunning in its extraordinary scope and the exquisiteness of its reproductions. It is a book full of the natural enthusiasm, largeness of spirit, and soaring imagination of an artist whose boundless energy and robust attitude toward life are reflected on every page.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
DOUGLAS ALLEN also wrote Frederic Remington’s Own Outdoors as well as Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War.
DOUGLAS ALLEN, JR., is an artist and illustrator who has done work for many publishers in the magazine and book field. He is also considered a foremost painter of wildlife. Collecting Wyeth’s work has long been his favorite avocation.
