“Did thou tell them how I taught thee?” by Howard Pyle (1896) On September 23, 1896, Howard Pyle wrote to Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell regard...

Howard Pyle, 1910 I have it on good authority that this well-known snapshot of Howard Pyle was taken 100 years ago today. The photographe...

In researching my posts on Howard Pyle’s Chincoteague trip, I found two letters from a Baltimore Sun correspondent, who visited the island ...

“In the Reading-Room” by Howard Pyle will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York City on Wednesday, September 29, 2010. It comes from the mas...

The following article by Howard Pyle, born out of his letter published in the Wilmington Daily Commercial for August 15, 1876, was first pu...

In his letter of August 26, 1876, to the Misses Cresson, Howard Pyle mentioned “that miserable engagement that detained me at the Newspaper...

I’m interrupting my planned follow-up post to present this... Today is the 139th anniversary of the first known appearance in print of a H...

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...