Here’s some more about Howard Pyle’s letter of August 26, 1876... First off, Pyle used fugitive ink to write this one, or else the ink wa...

I doggedly pursue Howard Pyle’s correspondence because even seemingly slight or unimportant letters can shed light on his life. Sometimes, t...

Did Maxfield Parrish actually study with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in the winter of 1894-95? The topic has been debated over the ...

On this day 115 years ago, Howard Pyle traveled from Delaware to New Jersey and met Woodrow Wilson (for the very first time!) to discuss hi...

“On Saturday I resumed work upon the illustrated verse. It progresses much more slowly than I had hoped. The printing of the letters of the ...

While the 1898 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dominated Howard Pyle’s time, he had still commissions to fill. In addition to...

“Your spiritual writings haunt me like personal experiences.” William Dean Howells to Howard Pyle, July 27, 1895

“Thereupon the poor woman screamed aloud, and cried out that he was a Murderer” from the short story “Retribution” by Howard Pyle in Harper...

Turner’s Mill, Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania, Summer 1898 or 1899 From The Philadelphia Inquirer , July 9, 1899: ...A summer school of quit...

“The old man's face changed suddenly, and he pressed his hand hard upon the arm of the hair cloth sofa” by Howard Pyle for “A Modern Pu...

The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (or PACSCL) has embarked on the "Hidden Collections in the Philadelph...

Almost, but not quite - as you'll discover when you read the accompanying, oddly-metered verse. "Jeremy Black's Fourth of July...

Before the sulfurous smoke of the Fourth of July dissipates entirely, here's how Pyle student Allen Tupper True described the day at Cha...

Howard Pyle's headpiece for his fairytale "Master Jacob," first published in Harper's Young People for June 29, 1886, and...

What was Howard Pyle doing exactly 100 years ago? Why, painting like mad on "Peter Stuyvesant and the English Fleet" (also kno...

"Anyone looking at Remington’s work feels that he has breathed the air of the Plains, and is at home there. It is necessary either to h...

Howard Pyle’s “decoration” for Edwin Markham’s poem, “A Song of Peace,” appeared in Collier’s Weekly for June 14, 1902. And 108 years ago t...

I hope this will make up somewhat for my long delay in posting anything - and for my even longer delay in posting a picture. "'B...

“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...