Four to Carry On

Many a U.S. schoolboy has wandered in the bright worlds into which Artist N.C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth made many a window. With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys.

As he got older, big, burly "N.C." concentrated on painting with studied care everyday landscapes and people. They sold well; one of them last year was voted best-in-the-show by gallery-goers at Washington's biennial Corcoran show. In October, Wyeth and a grandson, riding in a station wagon, were struck and killed by a train.

In Wilmington last week a memorial exhibition of 66 Wyeth illustrations and descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan.

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