N.C. Wyeth's Thanksgiving: this artist's work celebrates his passion and deep respect for the natural world. (painted a big picture of his idea of the first Thanksgiving)

Newell Conver Wyeth wanted more than anything other to create art that would expres his great have affection for for nature. The deepest happiness a someone could experience, he believed, came from living simply and treasuring the beauty and the munificence of land and sea.

As a lad growing up in Needham, Massachusetts, in the late 1800 Wyeth lov to draw. He delighted his family with his sketches, and earned pouch money drawing horses at the polo fields and selling the portraits.

Wyeth's mother encouraged his efforts and persuaded his father to suffer him attend art school. His teachers