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

“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...

“Ruins of Old Post Tavern” by Howard Pyle (1879) In the summer of 1879, two 26-year-olds set off to Maryland to gather data for an articl...

“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...

“The Dancer” as it appeared in Harper’s Monthly for December 1899 There are certain Howard Pyle pictures which I’ve only ever seen in po...

In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day here is something from Howard Pyle. “The Song of Captain Kidd” is, in fact, one of Pyle’...

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...

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...

“The little pink finger and the huge black index came to a full stop under this commandment” “Work is beginning to roll in upon me at l...

Howard Pyle made the illustration shown here for William Dean Howells’ “Stops of Various Quills” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for Dece...

“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...

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

It’s a beautiful day, so here’s a beautiful Howard Pyle painting of a beautiful day. The reproduction is dodgy and the original painting is...

Relatively primitive - and slightly off-register - color printing, but still a fine marginal illustration by Howard Pyle. It’s untitled a...

“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...

“Cap’n Goldsack” by Howard Pyle (1902) Henry Edward Rood, an assistant editor at Harper’s Monthly , got to see Howard Pyle’s original i...

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 Lily Lake” by Howard Pyle (1891) Howard Pyle isn’t known for his landscapes, but he did quite a few over the years, mostly to illustr...

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...