Howard Pyle
Saturday, November 9, 2024

The Bat: A Lost Fable

›
When 23-year-old Howard Pyle began his career, he eked out a living by writing fables, drawing on his already vast knowledge of the genre. ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

“It is a big serious business”

›
“The class organization that Mr. Pyle suggested at his dinner has been going forward and I am now serving as one of five on a committee for...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Detachment Disorder

›
Howard Pyle’s bookplate on the marbled pastedown endpaper of…what, exactly? We may never know, because someone - a monster - convenient...
Monday, March 14, 2022

A Witness to History (Sort of)

›
Although not particularly substantive, this Howard Pyle letter - written 122 years ago today - to Mrs. John G. Milburn of Buffalo, New York...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Paul Preston Davis (1931-2021)

›
“‘We note the passage of our life by its losses and neglects,’ says a certain author,” Howard Pyle once wrote . I have yet to identify who t...
1 comment:
Saturday, November 9, 2019

“I have made a very great mistake”

›
“I have just received the complimentary copies of my last book, ‘Sir Launcelot and His Companions,’” wrote Howard Pyle to Charles Scribner’s...
1 comment:
Sunday, July 29, 2018

He looked down and sang out, “Lower away!”

›
Howard Pyle’s painting “He looked down and sang out, ‘Lower away!’” has never gotten much attention. There are two chief reasons for this:...
1 comment:
Sunday, November 5, 2017

A Pyle Inscription

›
Howard Pyle sometimes drew a little picture when he signed his books, like in this copy of the 1901 edition of The Wonder Clock which he in...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

The Story of Siegfried

›
“The Forging of Balmung” by Howard Pyle (Frank French, engraver) “Please let me know when you are likely to be in New York again,” wrote ...
3 comments:
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Love Will Tear Us Apart

›
It was in 1880, most likely, that 27-year-old Howard Pyle - then living and working at his parents’ house, but soon to be married - painted ...
1 comment:
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

“This is the last week at the Ford...”

›
“This is the last week at the Ford and I’ll make the best of it,” wrote N. C. Wyeth to his mother on Sunday, October 18, 1903. “Then back to...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

In 1776 - The Conflagration

›
Behold Howard Pyle’s exquisitely delicate depiction of the fire that destroyed part of lower Manhattan 240 years ago. He made this pen a...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Howard Pyle, Costume Designer

›
Five costume designs for “Springtime” by Howard Pyle (1909) - via Northeast Auctions Howard Pyle’s stint as a Broadway costume designer ...
Friday, January 1, 2016

A Cover Design for the New Year

›
Howard Pyle’s cover design for the January 1900 issue of McClure’s Magazine is not necessarily his best work, nor is it very well known: i...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Margaret of Cortona

›
“...the illustration for ‘Margaret of Cortona’ is now in the possession of Mrs. Dan Bates, to whom I gave it some years ago,” wrote Howard P...
1 comment:
Monday, November 9, 2015

“Surprised by the Hero of Seventy Fights”

›
“Surprised by the Hero of Seventy Fights - The Good Lord James of Douglas” - another long lost work by Howard Pyle - will be sold at auction...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Study for “Life in an Old Dutch Town”

›
Study for “Life in an Old Dutch Town” by Howard Pyle (1910) Howard Pyle’s 16.5 x 71" oil on canvas study for his mural “Life in an Ol...
1 comment:
›
Home
View web version
My photo
Ian Schoenherr
"Yahn Show-en-hare" is an illustrator, a genealogist, and a researcher and collector of all things regarding Howard Pyle (1853-1911) and John Schoenherr (1935-2010)
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.