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...

“...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...

“A Dream of Young Summer” by Howard Pyle (1901) “As you know,” said Howard Pyle to the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in a letter of Ja...

“I feel very much gratified indeed that my pictures should attract such favorable attention in Green Bay. They seem to have been a great dea...

Many of Howard Pyle’s pictures are well-documented. Some, not so much. For example, correspondence concerning the creation of “The Fate of a...

Howard Pyle’s “Then appeared suddenly, a little beyond the light of the lamp, the spirit of Kurban Sahib” illustrated Rudyard Kipling ’s sh...

"Tory Refugees on their way to Canada" by Howard Pyle (1901) Although the second collaboration of Howard Pyle and Woodrow Wilso...

A transcription of Henry J. Peck's letter to his family: Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 8. 1901 Dear Father + Mother, Sister + Brother:...

In early December 1901, a young artist named Henry Jarvis Peck arrived in Wilmington to study illustration under Howard Pyle. Peck was bor...

When it comes to pictures, I am particularly fond of oblong compositions - especially oblong horizontal compositions. Is it from watching s...