Talk:N. C. Wyeth

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This is one of the great American artists, too bad we didn't have an decent article about him, mostly non-existent right now. -- Stbalbach 13:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Not sole credit

For fathering and inventing the Wyeth clan in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, his life is "larger than his accomplishments."

Did he manage this alone, or was a wife involved? Gordonofcartoon 03:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Found: Carolyn Bockius. Gordonofcartoon 03:22, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

"mother was acquainted with Thoreau and Longfellow during his childhood"

but Thoreau died 20 years before he was born, and Longfellow 6 months before he was born. Lycurgus (talk) 18:31, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

corrected to what it actually says, the implication is about the same, the default and implicit meaning of "acquainted with X" is NOT "acquainted with the works of X" except in the case where X is historically distant from the subject, e.g. Plato, Machiavelli. The mother was definitely alive when they were and could have met them, but not during the article subjects lifetime, which the clause "and during his childhood" implies. Lycurgus (talk) 11:07, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Not sure if it got reverted or what, since it looks like you may have done the same previously, but I just changed this to "her childhood," which I believe is correct. I.e. she knew them when she was younger. Brook Farm, a quasi-utopian community at which a number of important Transcendentalist figures and literary intellectuals lived before the Civil War, and others gathered, was located in West Roxbury, which borders on Needham; perhaps there is a connection. I grew up in Needham. There are Wyeth paintings and a room named after him in the Needham Public Library.

Was a section cut? Wyeth's move to Pennsylvania to work with Pyle is missing

Howard Pyle is mentioned in the top section, but the narrative of Wyeth's early life stops abruptly when he switched art schools while still in Massachusetts. In the next section we find Pyle appearing out of nowhere sending him west, and then Wyeth "returning" to Chadds Creek Pennsylvania without such a place having been mentioned previously. So it looks like a section about his leaving Needham/Boston to study with Pyle in PA was cut. If memory serves that took place ca. 1904. But I can't tell from the revision history when such a cut might have been made, nor why. Chris Lowe (talk) 09:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

His ties to Maine

There is no mention to his living in Maine at Port Clyde in the summer and the influence it played on him and his family over the years. 2601:184:201:2840:4130:C8AD:7AAB:E809 (talk) 17:51, 20 July 2023 (UTC)