The US copyright system often makes it hard to determine the end of an artwork’s copyright. But we know it ends soon for N. C. Wyeth’s painting “Mary Rode on Thistles… and Joseph Waded the Stream Below”, which the Brandywine Museum of Art shows on its website. Wyeth’s painting was used for the frontispiece and dust jacket of Henry Van Dyke‘s 1928 book Even Unto Bethlehem: The Story of Christmas. The painting and the book both join the US public domain in 8 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown