01 Work, The Art of War, N.C. Wyeth's The Bloody Angle, with footnotes

N.C. Wyeth, (American, 1882 - 1945)

The Bloody Angle, c. 1912

Oil on canvas

46 1/4 × 33 1/4 in. (117.5 × 84.5 cm)

Brandywine River Museum of Art

Wyeth intended The Bloody Angle to evoke the general horror of war and specifically. "Then the storm broke,  "and the angle became the spot on earth where, it is estimated, in all the history of the earth the musketry fire was the heaviest. It became The Bloody Angle."

Wyeth compressed both blue and gray soldiers into the lower two thirds of the picture, with the figures in the chaos of battle rising to a compositional angle symbolizing an horrific apex in the history of the war and of the country. He admitted to Mary Johnston that the composition was also constructed with Houghton Mifflin’s advertising department in mind, feeling it would make an effective design for an advertising poster. More on this painting

Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books — 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other." 

He is the father of Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, both also well-known American painters. More on Newell Convers Wyeth

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