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...

I like to identify real-life objects or settings that Howard Pyle incorporated into his pictures: the boots that show up again and again in ...

As it’s still Thanksgiving weekend, I figured I would post yet another Howard Pyle illustration featuring a turkey (be warned: there are m...

As a footnote to my post about Howard Pyle’s black and white oil painting for Men of Iron , I present the illustration as it appeared in ...

Although it’s always bittersweet when an original Howard Pyle comes up for sale (due to my pathological desire to possess anything he crea...

“As you are not going home to your Thanksgiving dinner, Mrs Pyle and I would like you very much to come down and eat a piece of turkey with ...

In early September 1891, Horace Bradley (1862-1896) of Harper and Brothers’ Art Department wrote to ask Howard Pyle if he would consider i...

A seldom seen illustration by Howard Pyle for E. I. Stevenson’s “Revolt of the Holidays” in Harper’s Young People for December 18, 1883. Th...

In honor of the now-neglected Evacuation Day , which celebrated the departure of British troops from New York after the Revolutionary War,...

"I wonder how long it will be that I shall have to crawl in writing before I can begin to walk? At times I feel discouraged and then ag...

"Americans lose honesty in an effort to produce something 'stunning.'" Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, November 24, 1894...

In my last post I referred to the warmth and “color” of Pyle’s black and white paintings. Here is an example of what I mean: one of 21 il...

In tweaking my last post (which I reserve the right to do, now and then), I found that the Green Bay and De Pere Antiquarian Society had p...

A while back, James Gurney posted some of Howard Pyle’s sketches for “Kidd on the Deck of the ‘Adventure Galley,’” drawn (by my calculati...

Another extract from a letter Howard Pyle wrote to his mother (whom he addresses in the Quaker style) on November 18, 1876: …Thee strongly a...

The rest of the day I spent in writing, and in the evening went down to the Mercantile Library and got Howells ’s A Foregone Conclusion . It...

“The Dance of the Veterans,” an unsigned wood engraving measuring 9.2 x 6.1 inches, appeared in Harper’s Weekly for July 26, 1879. The cre...

Here is Howard Pyle, with palette and brush in hand, painting - or, more likely, pretending to paint - “ The Battle of Nashville ” in his...

As I say in my profile, I avidly collect the work of Howard Pyle (1853-1911), the great American artist, author, and teacher. But that’s onl...