The Wyeths: the letters of N.C. Wyeth, 1901-1945

Boston: Gambit, 1971. Hardcover. G, dj has normal wear, cover rubbed along bottom edge. Pages are yellowed on top edge and have foxing on all edges. Inside clean and tight.. mylar covered illustrated dj; white/blue cloth covers, gilt lettering. (xii), 858 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table. N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces and development and flowering (truncated) of the "Wyeth tradition" over the course of several generations. Edited by Betsy James Wyeth. (Inventory #: 181006)