“As for Rome, I hate it,” wrote an ailing Howard Pyle to Stanley Arthurs on December 16, 1910. “I was in my room all the time but twice, an...

A little over a week ago, I finally visited the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and saw their Howard Pyle exhibit, whi...

What did Howard Pyle die of? Most contemporary newspapers reported that it was “heart failure” or “heart disease”. The more common notion - ...

Howard Pyle died on November 9, 1911, in Italy at 4.30 a.m. - so it was still November 8th in Wilmington, Delaware, no?

Today is the 108th birthday of Miss Mary Asenath Ball, who sent a fan letter to Howard Pyle when she was seven years old. Her letter is lost...

On September 9, 1911, Howard Pyle’s sons Theodore (22) and Howard Jr. (20) sailed on the S. S. Canopic from Genoa, Italy, bound for Boston ...

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

Villa Torricella, Summer 1911 (Eleanor and Phoebe Pyle in the distance) One hundred years ago today - June 14, 1911 - Howard Pyle and hi...

Howard Pyle’s summer home in 1911: Villa Torricella, San Domenico, Florence, Italy “This is now the first of June, and two weeks hence we...

STIBBERT MUSEUM, housed in the Villa Stibbert, at Montughi, about a mile and a half beyond the Porta San Gallo. Open on Tuesday, Thursday, ...

“As to the Bargello , which was once the judgment hall and the state prison of Florence, but which is now a Museum, there are treasures bey...

“The Strozzi Palace is perfect, and is even yet lived in by a remnant of the Strozzi family. All around the palace there are link holes in...

“Mr. Pyle enjoys teasing the maids, especially Lina, just how he wants his egg, due minuti [e] mezzo ; he will not learn Italian, found that...

“I do not care very much for professional sightseeing, but while I was in Milan, the hotel being near the Cathedral , I went there to see it...

Around Christmastime 1910, Howard Pyle was able to move his family from the cramped Pensione White “just on the outskirts of the slums” to “...

“The Gothic church of Santa Croce, begun in 1294…was completed in 1442, except the façade, which was added 1857-63. The interior, 128 yds. l...

On December 10, 1910, Elihu Vedder , the American artist and longtime resident of Italy, called on Howard Pyle at the Grand Continental Hote...

The Sant’ Anna in Naples In the rain and before dawn on December 7, 1910, the Sant’ Anna , carrying Howard Pyle, his family, and his sec...

GOES TO PAINT IN ITALY For a long stay in Italy, where he will have a studio in Florence, Mr. Howard Pyle, an American painter and illustr...

One hundred years ago today, Howard Pyle took an early train from Wilmington to Hoboken, then a ferry around Lower Manhattan to the Fabre Li...