Illustrationintheworld

Newell Convers Wyeth  (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), 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. [1]  During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, [2]  25 of them for  Scribner's , the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. [1]  The first of these,  Treasure Island , was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a  realist  painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. [3]  Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. [4]  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." [3] He is the fat...