It's rare that work by an illustrator makes it from the pages of books and magazines to the walls of a fine-art museum. However, last winter, KU's Spencer Museum of Art exhibited N.C. Wyeth's original illustrations for the literary classics
The Last of the Mohicans and
Kidnapped, among others. Without pages of words to accompany them, the Golden Age illustrator's paintings retold the exotic adventures of pirates and Indians with shadowing instead of foreshadowing, color and line instead of description, and composition in place of plot.
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