Before March slips away entirely, let me acknowledge Jeff A. Menges' kind mention of my blog in his blog post, March is Pyle's Month...

"When I look ahead, the end seems so close and I have done so little that I almost despair of accomplishing anything. I feel as though ...

The tiny and terrific "Down fell the fisherman" from "Where to Lay the Blame" by Howard Pyle was first published in Harp...

"Mr. Howard Pyle, as he said in his lecture at the Art [Students'] League on [March 18th], regards the making of compositions of ex...

What a passion comes over us sometimes for silence and rest! - that this dreadful mechanism, unwinding the endless tapestry of time, embroid...

Howard Pyle's "A Newspaper Puff" appeared in Harper's Young People for March 24, 1885, and in Pepper and Salt later tha...

Design for an unused bookplate by Howard Pyle, 1886 "It was with me very much a work of love and I certainly should not care to part...

Theodore Roosevelt and his four sons by Arthur Hewitt (via NYPL Digital Gallery ) On March 19, 1904, Howard Pyle took the train down fr...

Why the Drexel Institute Women's Basket-Ball Team of 1897? Because these seven women were all art students (notice the word "Art...

Howard Pyle crossed paths with Yale University a number of times during - and after - his lifetime. In 1903 he delivered the Anniversary Add...

"He would shout opprobrious words after the other in the streets" illustrated "A True History of the Devil at New Hope" ...

How would you like to have gotten this in the mail? It's an invitation - hand-lettered and decorated by Howard Pyle himself - for an ev...

The following, yes, fluff piece on Howard Pyle comes from the March 1910 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal . I don't know who wrote ...

Howard Pyle was born 157 years ago today in Wilmington, Delaware. But where in Wilmington? Readers of the Abbott or Pitz biographies migh...

"They're After Us, John!" by John Henderson Betts (1898) John Henderson Betts (born April 6, 1877) was one of Howard Pyle...

Readers of Harper's Young People for March 1, 1887, would have seen this lovely "Bearskin" headband by Howard Pyle for the v...

"I hope your patience has not entirely given out at my somewhat lengthened delay in writing. I will not attempt to offer any excuse as ...

"Howard Pyle, the well-known and deservedly popular draughtsman, has a class at the Drexel Institute, in Philadelphia, that is unique i...

I plan to write more in depth about Howard Pyle's involvement with To Have and To Hold , the novel by Mary Johnston, but until then, tak...

No tragedy in Howard Pyle’s life could ever compare with the death of his son Sellers. The surrounding circumstances only made it more sad. ...

“In the midst of a most charming trip my wife and I received a cablegram telling us that our little boy - a noble little fellow of six year...

Who knows how many unidentified pieces of Pylean ephemera are still out there. For instance, this 1900 advertising booklet for Houghton, Mif...

Illustrators, have you ever received a letter from an admirer who complimented your work and then asked you to send them one of your origina...

"The temptation to talk is great but it is so dangerous to formulate thoughts into words. So formulated they become such hard stones of...

Howard Pyle was on friendly terms with three presidents - or, more precisely, two presidents and one future president. The future president ...

I don't necessarily want to see Howard Pyle's original illustrations in pristine condition, since the annotations that often appear...

In his advanced Illustration Class at the Drexel Institute, Howard Pyle occasionally assigned seasonal topics to his pupils with the aim of ...

In the spring of 1896 the Pyle family moved from Ambassador Bayard 's mansion - which was much too costly to maintain - to a more modest...

"Howard Pyle, the artist, has a very pleasant studio at his home in Wilmington, Del. While he is painting his pictures he dictates his ...

"But to revert to the weather - for we cannot talk of anything without reverting back to it - I don’t think I have told you how all the...