Robin Hood in art

Andrew Wyeth’s father N.C. Wyeth illustrated a version of Robin Hood in 1917.

You could put that on to cover of an RPG book today and it would sell it. (The same holds true for his King Arthur illustrations that would work for Pendragon.)

He was a student of Howard Pyle, who wrote and illustrated The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood, published in 1883 and still in print, a key “adaptation distillation” of the character that codified several tropes along with the likes of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, ahead of the films of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.

And this could fit into a WFRP book...

I learned about Wyeth’s work through a French documentary on Sky Arts this morning, and now I am telling you.