It was in 1880, most likely, that 27-year-old Howard Pyle - then living and working at his parents’ house, but soon to be married - painted ...

This Howard Pyle picture went untitled when it appeared in Harper’s Weekly for December 1, 1894, illustrating Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Para...

My interest in Howard Pyle owes a lot to my interest in Arthur Conan Doyle . When I was 11 or 12, I became obsessed with Sherlock Holmes a...

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...

HOWARD PYLE, AN APPRECIATION by Henry M. Alden Howard Pyle, whose sudden death at Florence, Italy, November 9th, it is our painful office...

I couldn’t let Labor Day and “official” summer pass by without posting this delicate and relatively unknown pen-and-ink gem by Howard Pyle....

Entangled - Drawn by E. A. Abbey, from a Sketch by H. Pyle ( Harper’s Weekly , January 19, 1878) In his memoir, A World Worth While: A R...

“A Farm ‘Pluck’” by Howard Pyle (1878) “There are few more beautiful sights than a peach orchard in full bearing, the vistas between the ...

“An Interrupted Performance” by Howard Pyle (1878), engraved by Frederick Juengling (1880) Most of Howard Pyle’s works appeared in print ...

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

In the early 1890s, when Howard Pyle was very much under the literary spell of his friend W. D. Howells , he wrote a handful of “realist” ...

This doesn’t look 113 years old, but it’s from Howard Pyle’s “A True History of the Devil at New Hope” in Harper’s Weekly for December 18, ...

The June 7, 1879, issue of Harper’s Weekly featured this full-page (12 x 8.9") illustrated poem titled “The Robin’s Vesper” by Howard ...

Headband for “A Transferred Romance” by Howard Pyle (1892) I seem to be featuring many of Howard Pyle’s “modern” illustrations - I mean ...

From  Harper's Weekly for March 4, 1882 : Washington’s Birth-Day by Howard Pyle The breakfast china stood in rows, And all was s...

"Suppose you let me take care of this young lady in future?" by Howard Pyle from Harper’s Weekly for November 5, 1881. It illustr...

“The old man's face changed suddenly, and he pressed his hand hard upon the arm of the hair cloth sofa” by Howard Pyle for “A Modern Pu...

In his advanced Illustration Class at the Drexel Institute, Howard Pyle occasionally assigned seasonal topics to his pupils with the aim of ...

Howard Pyle’s “Politics in the Olden Times - General Jackson, President-elect, on His Way to Washington” (13.3 x 9.1") was engraved on ...

“The Dance of the Veterans,” an unsigned wood engraving measuring 9.2 x 6.1 inches, appeared in Harper’s Weekly for July 26, 1879. The cre...