N. C. Wyeth illustration from “Robin Hood” (1917): beautifully framed antique
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N. C. Wyeth illustration from “Robin Hood” (1917): beautifully framed antique

$245.00
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"Their arrows flew together"     For Robin Hood by Paul Creswick     Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth     Philadelphia. David McKay Publisher. 1917​ IMAGE INFORMATION​     Image Size: H 9.375” x W 6.875”     Matted & Framed:  H 16.375” x W 13.875”     Framed Price: $245.00    Whiteglove packaging and shipping approximately $30.00 Besides the illustrations NCW produced for Scribner's Classics, he created images for eighty-seven other books. All, or most, of these were also brilliant, none more so than the scenes NCW produced for Robin Hood, which David McKay published the same year Scribner published The Boy's King Arthur (1917). NCW had finished creating his “purple pallet” in 1913. The Black Arrow had been his first purple illustrations. We see them again in Robin Hood. This enchanting scene, somewhere in Sherwood Forest, is a true Wyeth masterpiece. The artist uses the remnants of the instructions he received from Howard Pyle in 1902 by creating action with a slanting composition. As

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