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

The above photograph, showing Howard Pyle with “The Evacuation of Charlestown” on his easel in his Wilmington studio, has now and then been...

“Raising the First American Flag, January 1, 1776” by C. O. DeLand No, this isn’t a long-lost Howard Pyle: it’s by Clyde Osmer DeLand, w...

“The Attack upon the Chew House” by Howard Pyle (1898) On April 19, 1898, Howard Pyle wrote to a fellow member of the Mahogany Tree Club...

Last year I posted something about John Henderson Betts, who studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute and at Chadd’s Ford, but who ...

“In Memoriam” by Miss Sophie B. Steel Last year on St. Valentine’s Day I posted an article about the holiday written by Howard Pyle and...

“I had enemies in my line” by Howard Pyle (1898) More wonderful grouping from a “lost” Howard Pyle - well, “lost” inasmuch as the origina...

“Washington Firing the First Gun at the Siege of Yorktown” by Howard Pyle (1898) Such nicely abstract grouping by Howard Pyle here. But “...

While the 1898 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dominated Howard Pyle’s time, he had still commissions to fill. In addition to...

In his advanced Illustration Class at the Drexel Institute, Howard Pyle occasionally assigned seasonal topics to his pupils with the aim of ...

Howard Pyle’s headpiece for “Good for the Soul” by Margaret Deland (part of her series of Old Chester Tales ) printed in Harper’s Monthly ...

I like to identify real-life objects or settings that Howard Pyle incorporated into his pictures: the boots that show up again and again in ...