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N. C. WYETHPITTSBURGH IN THE BEGINING. Circa 1930. 41x27 1/2 inches. Condition B: overpainting in bottom margin; repaired tears through margins into image; minor cracking in image. In the late 1920s N. C. Wyeth was commissioned to produce four paintings for the Pennsylvania Railroad featuring patriotic themes; these images were used for posters , and subsequently, in 1932, as calendar backs. A student of Howard Pyle, Wyeth was a prolific illustrator whose work appeared in magazines and children's books. Here in keeping with his style as a children's book illustrator, this image romanticizes the establishment of Fort Prince George, at the confluence of the allegheny and Monogahela Rivers, between Colonists and Native Americans.
