| Timeline |
| 1882 |
Born 22 October in Needham, Massachusetts |
| 1899 |
Graduates from the Mechanic Arts School in Boston |
| 1901 |
Studies art in Annisquam |
| 1902 |
Accepted into the Howard Pyle School |
| 1903 |
First commercial sale - "Bronco Buster" appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post |
| 1904 |
Charles Scribner's Sons, publishing house, sponsors a trip to the West |
| 1904 |
Graduates from the Pyle School of Art |
| 1906 |
Charles Scribner's Sons, publishing house, sponsors another trip to the West |
| 1906 |
Marries Carolyn Bockius of Wilmington, Delaware |
| 1908 |
Settles in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania |
| 1911 |
Completes his first major commission for Scribner's, the illustrations for Treasure Island |
| 1917 |
Son, painter Andrew Wyeth, is born |
| 1939 |
Begins a series of murals for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company - they are incomplete at the time of his death, and completed by his son Andrew and his son-in-law |
| 1945 |
Dies 19 October in a railway crossing accident |
| 1945 |
Receives the honorary degree of master of arts from Bowdoin College in June
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