In honor of Howard Pyle’s 161st birthday, here are a few kind words from some of his friends and admirers: “You write about a beautiful sh...

Howard Pyle’s 1906 Self-Portrait (Collection of the National Academy of Design) Howard Pyle took lots and lots of photographs - at least...

Cass Gilbert, circa 1907 (via the Minnesota Historical Society) “Your own life has been a life of success gratifying to all your friend...

“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...

With the exception of sketches, doodles, and embellished inscriptions in books, the bulk of Howard Pyle’s pictures have been published at on...

Ever since he finished “The Landing of Carteret” for Cass Gilbert ’s Essex County Court House , Howard Pyle hoped to get another mural comm...

In a letter dated December 22, 1908, architect Cass Gilbert wrote to Howard Pyle: Your speech at the dinner was a great success. I heard ma...

Two days after Howard Pyle died, muralist Edwin Howland Blashfield eulogized him in a letter to their mutual friend, architect Cass Gilbert...

A detail from "The Landing of Carteret" by Howard Pyle After resigning from McClure's Magazine in the summer of 1906, Howa...

Here is Howard Pyle, with palette and brush in hand, painting - or, more likely, pretending to paint - “ The Battle of Nashville ” in his...