I just saw this interesting article by Hannah Boettcher on "Fieldwork in Valley Forge" . Among other things, it shows that Howard ...

An illustration from Yankee Doodle by Howard Pyle (1881) 121 years ago today Howard Pyle met the celebrated British artist-illustrator-...

Today is the 149th birthday of Katharine Pyle, Howard Pyle’s sister. These two siblings seem to have had a conflicted relationship over t...

Figure 1. Young man photographed by Emily Webb, Wilmington, Delaware, 1870s Is this young Howard Pyle? I don’t know. But I really, real...

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...

Detail of a photograph of Howard Pyle by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1896) Usually, when imagining Howard Pyle, the Movie , I cast ...

Two years ago I talked about why I believed that Howard Pyle was born in a house on Market Street, between Eighth and Ninth Streets, in Wilm...

Yes, Howard Pyle slept here. He also worked here, about ten years before this photograph was taken. The address is (well, was ) 788 Broa...

Howard Pyle grinning in Italy, a few months before his death in 1911 Almost immediately after Howard Pyle died - 100 years ago today - hi...

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

“To me Death is a most interesting change to look forward to and the other life is as certain a thing to me as the passing from one room to ...

From the Sunday Morning Star of Wilmington, Delaware, November 4, 1883:

It’s the anniversary of the death of William Pyle - Howard’s father. He suffered a stroke while on a business trip and died in a Boston hosp...

Headband for A History of New York (The Grolier Club, 1886) by Howard Pyle “I asked Mr. Pyle for a list of books he would recommend to m...

With the exception of sketches, doodles, and embellished inscriptions in books, the bulk of Howard Pyle’s pictures have been published at on...

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...

“The stout little old gentleman who ate four fish-balls for breakfast on Sunday” How better to charm a woman than by drawing an old man a...

Southwest corner of Seventh and West Streets, Wilmington, Delaware (1994) Okay, Howard Pyle may have slept here. I was going through s...

My once-pristine copy of Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art by Jill P. May and Robert E. May is now full of grubby scribbles ...