An illustration from Yankee Doodle by Howard Pyle (1881) 121 years ago today Howard Pyle met the celebrated British artist-illustrator-...

I couldn’t let Labor Day and “official” summer pass by without posting this delicate and relatively unknown pen-and-ink gem by Howard Pyle....

“Reading the Declaration before Washington’s Army, New York, July 9, 1776” by Howard Pyle (1892) According to George Washington’s Gener...

“Hey, black cat! hey, my pretty black cat” by Howard Pyle (1891) “I send you to-day the three drawings for Giles Corey Yeoman and return ...

“To me Death is a most interesting change to look forward to and the other life is as certain a thing to me as the passing from one room to ...

It’s the anniversary of the death of William Pyle - Howard’s father. He suffered a stroke while on a business trip and died in a Boston hosp...

“The Lily Lake” by Howard Pyle (1891) Howard Pyle isn’t known for his landscapes, but he did quite a few over the years, mostly to illustr...

Howard Pyle was not above reworking a picture after publication. “The Burial of Braddock” is one example: after it appeared in Harper’s Mon...

Headband for “A Transferred Romance” by Howard Pyle (1892) I seem to be featuring many of Howard Pyle’s “modern” illustrations - I mean ...

In looking for something Halloween-y to post, it occurred to me how often Howard Pyle depicted witches - or at least old hags from Massachus...

"The temptation to talk is great but it is so dangerous to formulate thoughts into words. So formulated they become such hard stones of...