NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
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RINGING OUT LIBERTY. 1930.
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inches, 102x69 cm. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Condition B / B-: repaired tears, restoration and overpainting in margins, image and text.
N. C. Wyeth was commissioned in the late 1920s to produce four paintings for the Pennsylvania
Railroad featuring patriotic themes. These images were then used for posters, and subsequently as
calendar backs in 1932. A student of Howard Pyle, Wyeth was a prolific illustrator whose work
appeared in magazines and children’s books. In keeping with his style as a children’s book illustrator,
this image romanticizes the quintessential American patriotic scene, Philadelphia in 1776 and the
one-time ringing of the Liberty Bell.
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