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

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...

There are few more iconic photographs of Howard Pyle and his pupils, perhaps, than the one shown here. Its appeal has a lot to do with Miss...

“The Dancer” as it appeared in Harper’s Monthly for December 1899 There are certain Howard Pyle pictures which I’ve only ever seen in po...

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

“The Good, Aged Doctor”  by Howard Pyle (1899) “The Good, Aged Doctor” - or, more precisely, “The good, aged Doctor, the appearance of w...

“Jack Frost’s Harvest” by Philip L. Hoyt in Harper’s Weekly for December 6, 1902 In an article N. C. Wyeth wrote about Howard Pyle - pu...

Relatively primitive - and slightly off-register - color printing, but still a fine marginal illustration by Howard Pyle. It’s untitled a...

The 1899 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dining at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania* Howard Pyle’s taste in food has always fas...

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 ...

Turner’s Mill, Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania, Summer 1898 or 1899 From The Philadelphia Inquirer , July 9, 1899: ...A summer school of quit...

“As you are not going home to your Thanksgiving dinner, Mrs Pyle and I would like you very much to come down and eat a piece of turkey with ...