“This is the last week at the Ford and I’ll make the best of it,” wrote N. C. Wyeth to his mother on Sunday, October 18, 1903. “Then back to...

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...

I’ve mentioned my mini-obsession with Howard Pyle’s boots before . They’re the ones that show up again and again in over 25 years’ worth of ...

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

“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...

On September 13, 1903, Howard Pyle jotted down this drawing in a little notebook belonging to his student Thornton Oakley. Some years later...

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

“In the Valley of the Shadows” by Howard Pyle (1902) Mr Pyle likes very much to have us watch him work and the other day we went up to hi...

While the 1898 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dominated Howard Pyle’s time, he had still commissions to fill. In addition to...

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

I like to identify real-life objects or settings that Howard Pyle incorporated into his pictures: the boots that show up again and again in ...