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The Trial of the Bow by N. C. Wyeth
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: N. C. Wyeth
The beggar has strung the bow no suitor could bend. Wyeth paints the second before the first arrow, with the hall of Ithaca watching.
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Newell Convers Wyeth, the greatest American illustrator of his generation, painted a set of pictures for a 1929 edition of the Odyssey, and this is the climax. Odysseus, still in his beggar’s rags, has strung the great bow that a hundred suitors could not bend, and stands at the end of the hall with the arrow on the string. The suitors have just understood who he is. Wyeth gives him the light and them the shadow, and paints the second before the first shot.
Wyeth’s Homer is the one many Americans grew up with, in the Houghton Mifflin edition with his plates, and this image is the one they remember. The painting is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original.
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