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The Blind Beggar on the Isle of Mull In about half an hour of walk, I over took a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast but feeling before him with a staff
The Blind Beggar on the Isle of Mull In about half an hour of walk, I over took a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast but feeling before him with a staff
The Blind Beggar on the Isle of Mull In about half an hour of walk, I over took a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast but feeling before him with a staff
(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Blind Beggar on the Isle of Mull
In about half an hour of walk, I over took a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast but feeling before him with a staff

Oil on canvas adhered to hardboard
1913
39 3/16 × 31 7/8 in. (99.5 × 81 cm)
SUPP2000.1024
The New York Public Library
Not on view
Robin Hood Defeats Nat of Nottingham at Quarter-staff The beggar dealt his foe a back-thrust so neatly, so heartily, and so swiftly that Nat was swept off the stage into the crowd as a fly off a table.
Robin Hood Defeats Nat of Nottingham at Quarter-staff
The beggar dealt his foe a back-thrust so neatly, so heartily, and so swiftly that Nat was swept off the stage into the crowd as a fly off a table.
N.C. Wyeth
1917
The Torrent in the Valley of Glencoe I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me
The Torrent in the Valley of Glencoe
I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me
N.C. Wyeth
1913
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
N.C. Wyeth
1916
That endless stream across the Dubuque ferry was flowing on ahead of me, and the fast-going part of it was passing me every hour like swift schooners outstripping a slow, round-bellied Dutch square-rigger
That endless stream across the Dubuque ferry was flowing on ahead of me, and the fast-going part of it was passing me every hour like swift schooners outstripping a slow, round-bellied Dutch square-rigger
N.C. Wyeth
1921
"They fought with him on foot more than three hours, both before him and behind him"
"They fought with him on foot more than three hours, both before him and behind him"
N.C. Wyeth
1917
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
"At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
Little John Sings a Song at the Banquet That evening, whilst Monceux raged and stormed without, they all sat to a great feast.
Little John Sings a Song at the Banquet
That evening, whilst Monceux raged and stormed without, they all sat to a great feast.
N.C. Wyeth
1917
untitled (phantom female figures gliding over lake)
untitled (phantom female figures gliding over lake)
N.C. Wyeth
not dated
"That trip with Charles was one of the happiest times in my whole life. I got acquainted with my boy in those two weeks, as I never knew him before. I found the man in him"
"That trip with Charles was one of the happiest times in my whole life. I got acquainted with my boy in those two weeks, as I never knew him before. I found the man in him"
N.C. Wyeth
1931
"She Rode on for Nearly Half an Hour, Bravely Enduring Her Pain"
"She Rode on for Nearly Half an Hour, Bravely Enduring Her Pain"
N.C. Wyeth
1908
The Governor, infuriated by the attack upon him, thundered: "Stand where you are, or, on my oath, my men shall cut you down!"
The Governor, infuriated by the attack upon him, thundered: "Stand where you are, or, on my oath, my men shall cut you down!"
N.C. Wyeth
1929
The Half Moon in the Hudson (decoration in three panels)
The Half Moon in the Hudson (decoration in three panels)
N.C. Wyeth
1924