“The class organization that Mr. Pyle suggested at his dinner has been going forward and I am now serving as one of five on a committee for...

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...

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...

“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...

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

“After all, it is the result of my words that will tell, and not the words themselves. If I may help and inspire young artists with an exalt...

“Paint your picture by means of the lights - imagine that you are bringing moving beings out of a gray chaos and not that you are drawing me...

“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...

“The art-student learns rules for doing things but all the rules in the world would never make a picture. “A great picture can only be mad...

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...

I’ve read in more than one place that, once Howard Pyle decided to establish his own school, he resigned from the Drexel Institute (in a Feb...

Here is another news item about Howard Pyle’s Art Students’ League lectures and critiques of 1904-05. This one comes from the International ...

“It has just been announced at the Art Students' League that Howard Pyle will give a series of lectures on Composition, every other Satu...

On November 24, 1902, Allen Tupper True wrote home to his father: …Mr. Pyle’s latest innovation is a “Sketch Club” to meet once a week when...

“To illustrate requires a subjugating of oneself and that is the very best kind of a drill for an artist. For all know that true Art can flo...

The following notes were written by Bertha Corson Day during Howard Pyle’s sixth lecture on illustration at the Drexel Institute, November 1...