Bio (excerpted from here) :

Born Newell Convers Wyeth
October 22, 1882
Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Died October 19, 1945 (aged 62)
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States

He was the oldest of four brothers who spent much time hunting, fishing, and enjoying other outdoor pursuits, and doing chores on their farm. His varied youthful activities and his naturally astute sense of observation later aided the authenticity of his illustrations and obviated the need for models: "When I paint a figure on horseback, a man plowing, or a woman buffeted by the wind, I have an acute sense of the muscle strain."
 Hismothe4r encouraged his art.

He studied at Brandywine Valley under Howard Pile and after on a few months won a commission for a Saturday evening Post cover - at age 20! Here he is at 23:



At 23 he married Carolyn Bockius (18), 2nd oldest of nine from Pa.



Wyeth created a stimulating household for his five talented children. He was very sociable, and thye had frequent visitors. According to Andrew his youngest (alsop an artist), who spent the most time with his father due to his sickly childhood, Wyeth was a strict but patient father who did not talk down to his children. His hard work as an illustrator gave his family the financial freedom to follow their own artistic and scientific pursuits.





The family grew up in Chad's ford, Pa., here is their home:


Here is a landscape he made of Chad's Ford landscape, and one of his studio at Chad's Ford:




N.C. Wyeth self portrait:


N.C. Wyeth painted 3,000 paintings and illustrated 125 books!

That took a lot of determination. You can see that in his chin:



More self portraits:







Vacation time spent in Maine, painting, "precious time":


N.C. Wyeth - what a life. How prolific. So much continuous accomplishment, from a young age! And what a family man. His children all spoke well of him and led good lives. But his life ended tragically, at only age 62, along with his grandson. In October 1945, Wyeth and his grandson (Nathaniel C. Wyeth's son) were killed when the automobile they were riding in was struck by a freight train at a railway crossing () near his Chadds Ford home. His wife lived to age 86.