The latest incarnation of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has been getting a lot of press. I don’t hold out much hope that Samuel L. Clemen...

“...it is better to err in the lack of detail than it is to introduce details that may arouse question or criticism...” Howard Pyle to Pau...

A very early full-color illustration by Howard Pyle for Alfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott , published by Dodd, Mead & Company - and ...

Last year I wished Mark Twain a happy 174th birthday. And 108 years ago tonight Howard Pyle and 52 other men wished him a happy 67th birthd...

Here is another news item about Howard Pyle’s Art Students’ League lectures and critiques of 1904-05. This one comes from the International ...

“It has just been announced at the Art Students' League that Howard Pyle will give a series of lectures on Composition, every other Satu...

In honor of Thanksgiving, I serve up Howard Pyle’s earliest known turkey. It also happens to be his earliest known illustration for a nat...

On November 24, 1902, Allen Tupper True wrote home to his father: …Mr. Pyle’s latest innovation is a “Sketch Club” to meet once a week when...

GOES TO PAINT IN ITALY For a long stay in Italy, where he will have a studio in Florence, Mr. Howard Pyle, an American painter and illustr...

One hundred years ago today, Howard Pyle took an early train from Wilmington to Hoboken, then a ferry around Lower Manhattan to the Fabre Li...

“...Pyle’s illustrations for my poem are lovely in the Wide Awake ...” From the diary of Edmund Clarence Stedman, November 21, 1887

“A Victim to Science” by Howard Pyle ( Harper’s Young People , November 20, 1883)

“The Kloster” by Howard Pyle, 1880 The following is part of a letter Howard Pyle, then in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, wrote to Anne Poole, his...

On November 18, 1897, Howard Pyle wrote to Joseph Hawley Chapin, Art Editor of Scribner’s Magazine : …I send you today the Bunker Hill pic...

But Howard Pyle did eat a meal and write a letter here. Where? Why, the Mount Vernon House, run by Zephaniah Undercuffler in Ephrata, Penn...

“The Return from Deerfield” by Howard Pyle, 1897 The town of Deerfield, Massachusetts , came up in conversation recently and it prompted ...

“To illustrate requires a subjugating of oneself and that is the very best kind of a drill for an artist. For all know that true Art can flo...

“I think that pirate duel is the most terrific thing I ever saw. I had almost all the sensations I have enjoyed at a prize fight. Oh if I we...

In the court of the [Drexel] Institute were displayed last week four historical paintings by Howard Pyle, of which “Jefferson Framing the C...

Two days after Howard Pyle died, muralist Edwin Howland Blashfield eulogized him in a letter to their mutual friend, architect Cass Gilbert...

The following notes were written by Bertha Corson Day during Howard Pyle’s sixth lecture on illustration at the Drexel Institute, November 1...

Unlike Howard Pyle’s place of birth , his place of death is not in dispute. It happened in the building shown here - 6 Via Garibaldi in Flo...

Last year I wrote about how Howard Pyle altered his painting  “The Burial of Braddock” after it was first published in magazine and book ...

Howard Pyle belonged to many clubs and associations over the years: some well-known - like the Grolier, the Players, and the Century - and a...

"Suppose you let me take care of this young lady in future?" by Howard Pyle from Harper’s Weekly for November 5, 1881. It illustr...

A teeny, tiny (1.5 x 4.6"), untitled vignette from “Wisdom’s Wages and Folly’s Pay” by Howard Pyle. It debuted in the November 5, 1889,...

“The Children are sent to the Asylum.” I know how they feel. This lovely pen and ink (about 9 x 7.5") is typical post- Pepper-and-Salt ...

Referring to this picture, Howard Pyle wrote to his mother on November 3, 1878: The composition class at the [Art Students’] League still o...

On November 3, 1906, Basil King , author of “The Hanging of Mary Dyer,” wrote to Howard Pyle: Permit me to thank you for the beautiful illu...