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N. C. Wyeth

1882 - 1945

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Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books — 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. N. C. Wyeth is the 1,160th most popular painter (up from 1,949th in 2019), the 4,394th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,370th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, N. C. Wyeth ranks 1,160 out of 2,023. Before him are Davide Ghirlandaio, A. R. Penck, Christiane Kubrick, Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, and Boris Vallejo. After him are Caspar Netscher, Uroš Predić, Mikoláš Aleš, Giuseppe Amisani, Lucas van Valckenborch, and Barent Fabritius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, N. C. Wyeth ranks 139. Before him are Cai E, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Joseph Marx, Giorgio Abetti, Subramania Bharati, and Noah Beery. After him are Karl Rapp, José Vasconcelos, Sylvia Pankhurst, Oldřich Duras, Yakov Perelman, and Arnold Rothstein. Among people deceased in 1945, N. C. Wyeth ranks 216. Before him are Agnes Baden-Powell, Alfred Delp, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Óscar R. Benavides, Antal Szerb, and Heinrich Ehrler. After him are Violette Szabo, Henrietta Szold, Ernst-Günther Baade, Alexander Granach, Harry Hillman, and Friedrich, Prince of Wied.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, N. C. Wyeth ranks 4,394 out of 20,380. Before him are John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Ron Carter (1937), Gavin Newsom (1967), Paul Castellano (1915), Michael Richards (1949), and Bud Abbott (1897). After him are Charley Borah (1906), John C. Woods (1911), Viscera (1971), Alec John Such (1951), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and John Lasseter (1957).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, N. C. Wyeth ranks 50. Before him are Gutzon Borglum (1867), Allan Kaprow (1927), Benjamin West (1738), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), Carl Andre (1935), and Franz Kline (1910). After him are Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844), John Singleton Copley (1738), Lilla Cabot Perry (1848), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Joseph Cornell (1903), and Robert Motherwell (1915).

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