“In Wilmington Lucia Guliana was placed on trial in the Federal Court on charge of having imported Rosa Caliente from Italy for immoral purp...

"Illustration is such a dangerous thing. It is so apt to set the readers ideas into a fixed and hardened shape instead of allowing them...

"Will Mr. Howard Pyle accept through me the love and of seven big and little children to whom he taught the beauty of language and of l...

"I am in great danger of grinding out conventional magazine illustrations for conventional magazine stories. I feel myself now to be at...

This blog is all about Howard Pyle. But the other important artist in my life - really, the most important artist and the most important ma...

Readers of Scribner's Magazine for April 1902 must have been startled on seeing "Queen Esther inciting the Indians to Attack the ...

I’m overwhelmed by fools - Howard Pyle’s fools, I mean: he just drew and painted too many to show all at once. But here’s one more, in yet a...

This fool - a detail from the illustrated verse “Venturesome Boldness” ( Harper’s Young People , August 26, 1884) - has the distinction of b...

This fool - or jester, if you will - is from Erik Bogh’s “The Pilgrimage of Truth” ( Harper’s New Monthly Magazine , December 1900). Its tit...

Well, this fool is not from April per se , but from "The Quaker Lady" by S. Weir Mitchell ( Harper's New Monthly Magazine , N...

"Tory Refugees on their way to Canada" by Howard Pyle (1901) Although the second collaboration of Howard Pyle and Woodrow Wilso...

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...