Behold Howard Pyle’s exquisitely delicate depiction of the fire that destroyed part of lower Manhattan 240 years ago. He made this pen a...

Five costume designs for “Springtime” by Howard Pyle (1909) - via Northeast Auctions Howard Pyle’s stint as a Broadway costume designer ...

This past July 18th was the 150th anniversary of the Second Battle of Fort Wagner . In 1883, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was commissioned to cr...

“The Inauguration” by Howard Pyle, engraved by F. S. King Today marks the 224th anniversary of George Washington’s first inauguration as p...

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...

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

“An Old-time May Day in ‘Merrie England’” by Howard Pyle (1878) About a year after Howard Pyle made his illustration for “The Merrie Mon...

“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...

“The Sailor’s Wedding” by Howard Pyle (1895) It’s Howard Pyle’s wedding anniversary today: on April 12, 1881, the 28-year-old artist-...

“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 ...

My blogging slowed drastically due to a book project that proved more time consuming than I expected. But maybe I can balance or juggle more...

“The Enemy at the Door” by Howard Pyle, from “Some Thanksgiving-Time Fancies” in Scribner’s Magazine for November 1895.

"On sped the light chestnut, with the little officer bending almost to the saddle-bow" On this date 120 years ago - July 15, 18...

The great illustrator Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821-1888) lived and worked in Delaware at the same time that Howard Pyle was coming of a...

On May 19, 1896, Howard Pyle wrote to Woodrow Wilson: In thinking over the subject for this Sixth Washington Article, I would suggest, by y...

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

“Washington in the Garden at Mount Vernon” by Howard Pyle (1896) What was on the mind of Howard Pyle - then in the midst of illustrating ...

On November 18, 1897, Howard Pyle wrote to Joseph Hawley Chapin, Art Editor of Scribner’s Magazine : …I send you today the Bunker Hill pic...

“The Return from Deerfield” by Howard Pyle, 1897 The town of Deerfield, Massachusetts , came up in conversation recently and it prompted ...