“...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...

In a post two years ago, I quoted Howard Pyle’s thoughts on the sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye , but I want to expand on that post to show wh...

There are few more iconic photographs of Howard Pyle and his pupils, perhaps, than the one shown here. Its appeal has a lot to do with Miss...

This past July 18th was the 150th anniversary of the Second Battle of Fort Wagner . In 1883, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was commissioned to cr...

It’s Maxfield Parrish’s 143rd birthday today, so here are some Parrish-related posts, in case you’ve overlooked them.

On a Friday night 107 years ago this month, N. C. Wyeth wrote to his “Mama” back in Hingham, Massachusetts: This week has gone past lik...

Yes, yet another Pyle-related video to watch . Here, the story of Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972), one of Howard Pyle’s longest-lived and mo...

Allen Tupper True Denver-born artist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955) joined Howard Pyle’s class in May 1902 and his abundant letters home ...

“Raising the First American Flag, January 1, 1776” by C. O. DeLand No, this isn’t a long-lost Howard Pyle: it’s by Clyde Osmer DeLand, w...

On December 4, 1903, Howard Pyle and his wife, Anne, traveled from Chicago to Indianapolis via the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St....

“Jack Frost’s Harvest” by Philip L. Hoyt in Harper’s Weekly for December 6, 1902 In an article N. C. Wyeth wrote about Howard Pyle - pu...

Howard Pyle, photographed  by Arthur Ernst Becher in 1902 According to David Michaelis’  N. C. Wyeth: A Biography   it was 110 years ...

"The Old Violin" by Howard Pyle (1893) Next week, one of my favorite Howard Pyle paintings will be sold by Heritage Auctions ....

Portrait of Elisabeth Moore Hallowell by Violet Oakley (via Pook and Pook ) In 1872, Howard Pyle, 19 and fresh out of art school, rente...

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...

“The dim, shadowy forms of vessels riding at anchor in the night” by Howard Pyle (1889) If only. In the correspondence of Howard Pyle’s s...

The 1899 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dining at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania* Howard Pyle’s taste in food has always fas...

Howard Pyle photographed by J. R. Cummings in 1910 On his blog, James Gurney posted a reading he did from Henry Pitz’s The Brandywine Tra...