A Howard Pyle Mask © 1998 by Ian Schoenherr

A Howard Pyle Mask © 1998 by Ian Schoenherr I've always been fascinated by life masks and death masks and I used to dream that I woul...

The Flight from Falworth Castle (Harper’s Young People, January 20, 1891) “I know nothing about the story: do you? No? Well, the picture ...

I've been laid up with a cold and disinclined to do much of anything. But I've emerged from the fog just enough to pull some quotes ...

“Pirates used to do that to their Captains now and then” by Howard Pyle (1894) “…‘Too good - too good,’ The pirate captain dead on the san...

"Should I now and then appear to question your details, I hope you will consider that I do so with all deference, and only with a desir...

The January 11, 1890, issue of the New York Ledger included a “Souvenir Supplement” featuring “The Captain’s Well,” a poem by John Greenlea...

"Washington and Steuben at Valley Forge" by Howard Pyle (1896) Howard Pyle felt compelled to convince Woodrow Wilson that an il...

Howard Pyle's "The Strange Adventures of Carl Spich" appeared in the January 3, 1885, issue of Harper's Weekly . The story...

"Enter New Year's Day, Saluting" by Howard Pyle for "Revolt of the Holidays" by Edward Irenæus Stevenson in Harper...

A number of Howard Pyle's major works are surprisingly under-documented. For example, his painting "Christmas Morn" which was ...

We don’t usually associate Howard Pyle with Santa Claus, but Harper’s Young People for December 18, 1883, features Pyle’s only known publi...

One of the remarkable things about Howard Pyle the craftsman - or, in this case, the draughtsman - was his skillful use of so many differen...

A detail from "The Landing of Carteret" by Howard Pyle After resigning from McClure's Magazine in the summer of 1906, Howa...

Illustrators, have you ever wanted to alter a picture after it was published? I know I have - too many times - but I've always stopped m...

In looking over the majority of my Howard Pyle posts, I see that I’ve been unconsciously featuring his “modern day” illustrations. Maybe it...

A thank you letter from Howard Pyle to Thomas Casilear Cole (July 23, 1888 Staatsburgh, New York - March 1976 New York City), later a portra...

As I mentioned in an earlier post , it’s nice, if rare, to put an exact creation date on a work by Howard Pyle. In so many cases, we only kn...

I remember when I first saw this picture: I was about 14, in the basement of the Argosy Bookstore in Manhattan, desperately leafing through...

Look out, Thomas Eakins! Howard Pyle’s “The Professor in His Boat” - an 8 x 12" black and white oil painted in 1893 and printed (at a m...

Here is a photograph of Clifford Warren Ashley - wearing a smock - and Henry Jarvis Peck in their studio at 1616 Rodney Street, Wilmington, ...

A transcription of Henry J. Peck's letter to his family: Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 8. 1901 Dear Father + Mother, Sister + Brother:...

In early December 1901, a young artist named Henry Jarvis Peck arrived in Wilmington to study illustration under Howard Pyle. Peck was bor...

"True value of illustrative work is originality - Do what you see, not what another man sees - Don’t be schooly " Howard Pyle at ...

On December 7, 1900, Howard Pyle had a special guest at his studio on Franklin Street in Wilmington, Delaware. Yes, none other than Professo...

Howard Pyle most likely wrote and illustrated the following fable in November or December 1876 and it appeared in the September 1878 issue o...

It’s nice - and all too rare - to put an exact creation date on a Howard Pyle illustration. On November 28, 1876, Pyle, then living in New ...

“...In discussing ‘American Art’ at the Art Institute yesterday afternoon Howard Pyle, the illustrator, urged American artists to be America...

It’s a shame that Howard Pyle never got the chance to fully illustrate a Robert Louis Stevenson tale; they were - at least subjectively - ki...

Robert Louis Stevenson died 115 years ago today, so here is Howard Pyle’s sole illustration for Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . ...