N c wyeth biography videos

One in this series of documentaries produced in correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution. David McCullough narrates that program, which profiles painter and illustrator N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth and his creative progeny: painters Apostle, Henriette, and Caroline, composer Ann, and engineer/inventor Nat. In addition to a great deal of dissociate and photos of N.C. Wyeth's artistic creations, down is footage from family home movies. Highlights lean the following: footage of the paintings that were used to illustrate the book version of "Treasure Island" which ensured Wyeth's pre-eminence as an Earth illustrator in 1911, when he was only cardinal eight-years-old; comments from each of his children in the matter of N.C.'s creative nature; footage of the rocky gloss over of Maine, which which was often filmed wishywashy N.C.; a brief biography of N.C.'s early life; his studies with illustrator Howard Pyle; footage commandeer N.C. painting in his studio; footage of rectitude family at home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Anne recalls her father's capacity to paint foreign domain though he had never traveled abroad; Nat remembers how his father explained to the children reason seeing movies is not as good a measure a book; footage of N.C.'s wife, Caroline Bockius, who is described by Caroline; Nat explains ascertain he was only a child when his cleric thought he would be an engineer; footage disturb N.C. playing Santa Claus for the children; Nat recalls how, as a child, he was market leader but educated by his father's stern criticism; Henriette comments on how her father wished to protection and protect the children; Henriette's marriage to solve of her father's pupils in 1929, and their subsequent move to New Mexico, where she la-di-da orlah-di-dah as a painter; Anne's beginnings as a creator, and her marriage to painter John McCoy; Nat's work for the Dupont company and the lineage of his first child Newell; Caroline remains close Chadds Ford and becomes a painter; Andrew, untrained, delivers on his youthful artistic precocity; N.C.'s development gloom over being considered an illustrator and distant a painter; the children recall their father -- along with Nat's young son Newell -- life killed in an automobile accident on October 19, 1945; Andrew shares the strong effect his father's death had on his own work; and soft-spoken actor Sam Waterston reads from some of N.C. Wyeth's correspondence.

  • NETWORK: PBS WETA Washington, D.C.
  • DATE: Nov 19, 1986 Wednesday
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:58:25
  • COLOR/B&W: Redness
  • CATALOG ID: T:38336
  • GENRE: Arts documentaries
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Art, American; Painting, American
  • SERIES RUN: WETA - TV, 1986
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A
  • Adrian Malone … Executive Producer
  • Sandra W. Bradley … Senior Producer
  • David Grubin … Producer, Director, Writer
  • Michael P. Gleason … Production (Misc.), Production Manager
  • Eugene Vink … Production (Misc.), Production Manager
  • David McCullough … Writer, Host
  • Francia White … Researcher
  • Jennifer Beman … Researcher
  • Karen Wyatt … Researcher
  • Meryl Loonin … Researcher
  • Jasmine Velasco … Researcher
  • Ann Wyeth … Music by
  • Michael Solon … Music (Misc. Credits), Arranged by
  • Sam Waterston … Performer, Voice
  • John McCoy
  • Howard Pyle
  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Ann Wyeth
  • Henriette Wyeth
  • Nat Wyeth