Art: The Greatest Illustrator

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N. C. Wyeth's own life was both swift and deep. Dead at 62, he left behind him a widened world of imagination and a family dedicated to the arts (besides Andrew, Wyeth's daughter Henriette and son-in-law Peter Kurd are distinguished painters). Soon after N. C.'s death, his son Andrew painted a picture of a boy running downhill. "For me," Andy says, "the bulges of that hill seem to be breathing—rising and falling—almost as if my father were underneath them."