Although not particularly substantive, this Howard Pyle letter - written 122 years ago today - to Mrs. John G. Milburn of Buffalo, New York...

“A Dream of Young Summer” by Howard Pyle (1901) “As you know,” said Howard Pyle to the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in a letter of Ja...

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

“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...

The above photograph, showing Howard Pyle with “The Evacuation of Charlestown” on his easel in his Wilmington studio, has now and then been...

“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...

“According to the tradition of the ‘ground-hog’ the weather should have broken by now, but this time the ‘ground-hog’ was a prophet neither ...

“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...

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...

“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...

“A Farm ‘Pluck’” by Howard Pyle (1878) “There are few more beautiful sights than a peach orchard in full bearing, the vistas between the ...

The United States Treasury Department at Washington, from a photograph by Alexander Gardner (1866) “You aught to see the treasury bilding...

“Abraham Lincoln” by Howard Pyle (1907) On this day 150 years ago - February 21, 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived in Philad...

Above is the earliest known letter written on this date by Howard Pyle. It is addressed to Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), the “Bank...

Photograph of Howard Pyle taken between December 11, 1887, and January 18, 1888 In December 1887, Edwin Wilson Morse, editor of The Book ...

“The Kloster” by Howard Pyle, 1880 The following is part of a letter Howard Pyle, then in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, wrote to Anne Poole, his...

But Howard Pyle did eat a meal and write a letter here. Where? Why, the Mount Vernon House, run by Zephaniah Undercuffler in Ephrata, Penn...

Last year I wrote about how Howard Pyle altered his painting  “The Burial of Braddock” after it was first published in magazine and book ...

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

“Did thou tell them how I taught thee?” by Howard Pyle (1896) On September 23, 1896, Howard Pyle wrote to Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell regard...