N.C. Wyeth’s painting for Robin Hood, featuring a colorful, medieval scene of people on horses crossing a small blue stream with a lush tree in the background.

N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth (1882–1945)
Robin and His Mother Go to Nottingham Fair 
Oil on canvas, 1917
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Robin and His Mother Go to Nottingham Fair

In a career spanning more than 40 years, the American artist N.C. Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated some 100 books, including such classics as Treasure Island, Rip Van Winkle, The Last of the Mohicans, and Robinson Crusoe. The New York Public Library holds the complete suite of Wyeth’s oil paintings that served as the basis for his Robin Hood illustrations. Though perhaps not immediately apparent to every viewer, Wyeth gives Sherwood Forest a distinctly American look: its trees are not the oaks of England, but the sycamores and silver birches of southeastern Pennsylvania, where he lived and worked.

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