Hemisphere Maps by N. C. Wyeth

Eastern and Western Hemisphere Maps

N.C. Wyeth

Washington DC: 1928. Dimensions 16 3/8 x 18 1/2. Sold as a pair. (Item ID: 5253)

N. C. WYETH'S HEMISPHERE MAPS In 1928 the National Geographic Society commissioned N. C. Wyeth to paint 5 murals in their buildings in Washington, D. C. Four of the murals appeared as frontispieces in the National Geographical Magazine for March, May, July and November, 1928. The fifth mural appeared in December of 1928. The fourth and fifth murals were the famous hemisphere maps which have become very scarce and much sought after.The legend of the Eastern Hemisphere map reads: "While simulating the illuminated mariners' charts of the Sixteenth Century, which pictorially dramatized the deeds of dauntless explorers, this map of the Eastern Hemisphere records present-day political boundaries.

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