“I have just received the complimentary copies of my last book, ‘Sir Launcelot and His Companions,’” wrote Howard Pyle to Charles Scribner’s...

“The Forging of Balmung” by Howard Pyle (Frank French, engraver) “Please let me know when you are likely to be in New York again,” wrote ...

“...the illustration for ‘Margaret of Cortona’ is now in the possession of Mrs. Dan Bates, to whom I gave it some years ago,” wrote Howard P...

“Surprised by the Hero of Seventy Fights - The Good Lord James of Douglas” - another long lost work by Howard Pyle - will be sold at auction...

Pardon the clickbait title, but I couldn’t resist after yesterday’s “news” that a “lost” Sherlock Holmes story “by” Arthur Conan Doyle had c...

“The Werewolf” by Howard Pyle in The Ladies’ Home Journal for March 1896 Werewolf? There wolf. (There - no, there , in the middle foregro...

A semi-desperate attempt on my part to post something “Irish” on this St. Patrick’s Day: “The Queen of Ireland seeks to slay Sir Tristram” c...

Many of Howard Pyle’s pictures are well-documented. Some, not so much. For example, correspondence concerning the creation of “The Fate of 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...

“Catherine de Vaucelles, in her garden” by Howard Pyle (1904) What do you think of this Howard Pyle painting? It’s not so bad, right? It’...

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...

“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...

“An Old-time May Day in ‘Merrie England’” by Howard Pyle (1878) About a year after Howard Pyle made his illustration for “The Merrie Mon...

“Myles, as in a dream, kneeled, and presented the letter” illustrates the following passage from the second installment of Howard Pyle’s nov...

“The First Christmas Tree” by Howard Pyle illustrated “The Oak of Geismar” by Henry Van Dyke in Scribner’s Magazine for December 1891. It w...

Figure 1. “Her whisper was so soft he only guessed the words“ from "The Stairway of Honor" by Maud Stepney Rawson in  Harper's...