Howard Pyle’s painting “He looked down and sang out, ‘Lower away!’” has never gotten much attention. There are two chief reasons for this:...

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...

“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...

A long lost, modern, summertime scene from Howard Pyle. “The young fellow lounged in a rattan chair” illustrated his own story, “A Modern Ma...

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...

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....

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

“The Sailor’s Wedding” by Howard Pyle (1895) It’s Howard Pyle’s wedding anniversary today: on April 12, 1881, the 28-year-old artist-...

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

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” ...

Howard Pyle’s “Then appeared suddenly, a little beyond the light of the lamp, the spirit of Kurban Sahib” illustrated Rudyard Kipling ’s sh...

Little is known about this Howard Pyle sketch, but I don’t doubt its authenticity. While the “modern day” costume of the disheveled, Charles...

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

“I had enemies in my line” by Howard Pyle (1898) More wonderful grouping from a “lost” Howard Pyle - well, “lost” inasmuch as the origina...

“Looking into the Prussian Lines from the Château de la Muette” by Howard Pyle (1886) Speaking of Howard Pyle’s penchant for nicely unexp...

“His niece had found him lying dead” from the short story “A Life for a Life,” written and illustrated by Howard Pyle ( Scribner’s Magazine...

"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...

Referring to this picture, Howard Pyle wrote to his mother on November 3, 1878: The composition class at the [Art Students’] League still o...