Famous People with Name Wyeth

Newell Convers Wyeth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Newell Convers Wyeth: was an American artist and illustrator. He was the star pupil of the artist Howard Pyle, and became one of America's greatest illustrators.[1]During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books,[2] 25 of them for Scribner's, the work for which he is best known.[1]Wyeth was a realist painter just as 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]

Andrew Newell Wyeth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrew Newell Wyeth: an American realist painter, and regionalist artist. He is one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the American public. He is the son of the illustrator and artist N. C. Wyeth, and the brother of inventor Nathaniel Wyeth and artist Henriette Wyeth Hurd, and the father of artist Jamie Wyeth and Nicholas Wyeth .

James Browning Wyeth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Browning Wyeth: a contemporary American realist painter. He was born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He is artistic heir to the Brandywine Tradition, painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape.At age 12, Jamie studied with his aunt Carolyn Wyeth, a well-known artist in her own right, and the resident at that time of the N.C. Wyeth home and studio, filled with the art work and props of his grandfather. In the morning, he would study English and history at his home and in the afternoon go to the studio and join other students in learning the fundamentals of drawing and composition. He stated later, “She was very restrictive. It wasn’t interesting, but it was important.” [1]