Andrew Wyeth and Birds of War by Cécile Whiting

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From Braemar to Hollywood: The American Appropriation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pirates by Richard J. Hill, Laura Eidam

“…By tracing the transformation of the author’s pirate captain, Long John Silver, from N. C. Wyeth’s illustrations (1911) through the cinematic performances of Wallace Beery (1934) and Robert Newton (1950), this paper demonstrates that the films have created a quintessentially “American pirate”—a figure that has necessarily evolved in response to differences in medium, the performances of the leading actors, and filmgoers’ expectations. …”
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Andrew Wyeth and the Wyeth Tradition, or “the Anxiety of Influence” by Helena Lamouliatte

“…Indeed, from an early age, the art prodigy was tutored by his father, the famous illustrator and painter N. C. Wyeth. Parallels were also drawn later between the younger figurative painter and his father’s teacher, the renowned illustrator Howard Pyle. …”
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