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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The White Man Did Nothing but Waste
1905
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She thought a poet was a man who made rimes; she did not guess that this man when he said: "'There'll be fences here, and fields and roofs and chimneys," was talking poetry
N.C. Wyeth
1930
"They'd git you, Jack, if you did," suggested the law-man grimly.
N.C. Wyeth
1905
She was like nothing in his grasp; she could not stir.
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1919
"I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
Two or three times one of the mares fell in the drifts, and nothing but the courage bred into them in the blue-grass fields of Kentucky saved us from stalling out in that fearful moving flood of snow
N.C. Wyeth
1921
Nothing would escape their black, jewel-like, inscrutable eyes.
N.C. Wyeth
1911
"Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing."
N.C. Wyeth
1921
A Cloud Of Dust Poured Over Him, He Lashed Down Wildly. After That There Was Nothing But Spinning Haze In Which He and His Saddle Rocked and Spun....
N.C. Wyeth
1925
--A careless, strong willful white man who had lived the Indian life for many years--
N.C. Wyeth
1908
He Would Say, "Only Do I Care to Eat the Grub of the White Man."
N.C. Wyeth
1905
The White Man's Way, untitled headpiece illustration
N.C. Wyeth
1905
Nothing Stops These Men - Let Nothing Stop You
Howard Giles
1918