Howard Pyle’s fondness for the writings of William Dean Howells is well documented - mostly in Pyle’s own correspondence. On October 30, 18...

If you scroll through the Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress, you’ll find this kindly letter to Howard Pyle’s widow - writ...

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

On May 30, 1903, Augustus Saint-Gaudens ’s Sherman Monument was unveiled at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. Altho...

On January 5, 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pyle attended the Cabinet Dinner at the White House, where they dined on Harlequin Sandwiches, Potag...

Cass Gilbert, circa 1907 (via the Minnesota Historical Society) “Your own life has been a life of success gratifying to all your friend...

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...

Headpiece for “McAndrew’s Hymn” by Howard Pyle (1894) Howard Pyle’s connections to the Titanic disaster are tenuous at best, seeing tha...

“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-...

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

“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...

Howard Pyle belonged to many clubs and associations over the years: some well-known - like the Grolier, the Players, and the Century - and a...

“Your spiritual writings haunt me like personal experiences.” William Dean Howells to Howard Pyle, July 27, 1895

Theodore Roosevelt and his four sons by Arthur Hewitt (via NYPL Digital Gallery ) On March 19, 1904, Howard Pyle took the train down fr...

How would you like to have gotten this in the mail? It's an invitation - hand-lettered and decorated by Howard Pyle himself - for an ev...

Today is Mark Twain's 174th birthday - enough of a reason to talk briefly about his (or Samuel L. Clemens's) connection to Howard Py...