Books and Videos

One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth. Introduction by Lauren Raye Smith. Essays by Tom Brokaw and David Michaelis. Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Published in association with the Farnsworth Museum.

One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth. A film written and edited by Stephen Labovsky. (Video and DVD; color approximately 40 minutes.) A production of Brandywine Films (www.brandywinefilms.com) in association with The Farnsworth Art Museum (www.farnsworthmuseum.org). Created for the exhibition "One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth," organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum, August 2000 through January 2001.

Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition—Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth. Foreword by David Michaelis. Introduction by Susan C. Larsen. With essays by Stephen T. Bruni, Betsy James Wyeth, Theodore F. Wolff, and Christopher Crosman. A Bulfinch Press Book/Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Published in association with the Delaware Art Museum and the Farnsworth Art Museum.

This still from a 1945 Wyeth-family home movie shows N.C. getting into his Ford station wagon and beginning his morning errands around the Brandywine Valley. On the way, Wyeth often picked up his grandson Newell—the son of Nat and Caroline Wyeth—with whom he would be forever linked.

Articles and Essays by David Michaelis

World of the Wyeths
Condé Nast Traveler, April 1998

Keys to the Brandywine Valley
Condé Nast Traveler, April 1998

Provincetown
Reprinted from The American Scholar, Volume 69, Number 3, Summer 2000