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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981011
Author:Karal Ann Marling

N.C. WYETH

A Biography

By David Michaelis Knopf. 555 pp. $40 Reviewed by Karal Ann Marling, the author of "Norman Rockwell," an analytic study of the illustrator's work. Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), better known as N.C., is remembered today as the father of Andrew Wyeth, the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, and the founder of America's only real painterly dynasty. N.C. himself, however, was part of another famous cadre of illustrators founded by Howard Pyle on the outskirts of Wilmington, Del., in the final years of the 19th century. Composed primarily of Pyle's disciples, the Brandywine ...

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