In a post two years ago, I quoted Howard Pyle’s thoughts on the sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye , but I want to expand on that post to show wh...

I spent Friday in the Delaware Art Museum ’s library and among the many things I looked at (again) were three enormous, leather-bound scrap...

“Catherine de Vaucelles, in her garden” by Howard Pyle (1904) What do you think of this Howard Pyle painting? It’s not so bad, right? It’...

“Whither?” by Howard Pyle (1904) ...Now the fate of the nation lies with us voters to determine. It does not lie with the Republican C...

“The Haunted House” was built, as it were, by Howard Pyle for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s story “The Gold” in the December 1904 issue of Harpe...

“Greyhound and Hare” by Antoine-Louis Barye During his August 29, 1904, composition lecture, Howard Pyle said: Barye is one of the very...

“He found Mélite alone” by Howard Pyle (1904) “I am most pleased that my illustrations for your Story of Adhelmar should have met with yo...

Another long-lost Howard Pyle painting is about to go on the block at Scottsdale Art Auction on March 31, 2012. It’s Lot 322. “Come, c...

“Lear and Cordelia” (1849-54) by Ford Madox Brown Despite his self-described “hermit-like” existence, Howard Pyle didn’t live in a vacuum...

“Paint your picture by means of the lights - imagine that you are bringing moving beings out of a gray chaos and not that you are drawing me...

“The art-student learns rules for doing things but all the rules in the world would never make a picture. “A great picture can only be mad...

Figure 1. “Her whisper was so soft he only guessed the words“ from "The Stairway of Honor" by Maud Stepney Rawson in  Harper's...

Theodore Roosevelt and his four sons by Arthur Hewitt (via NYPL Digital Gallery ) On March 19, 1904, Howard Pyle took the train down fr...

How would you like to have gotten this in the mail? It's an invitation - hand-lettered and decorated by Howard Pyle himself - for an ev...

Today is Mark Twain's 174th birthday - enough of a reason to talk briefly about his (or Samuel L. Clemens's) connection to Howard Py...