“His niece had found him lying dead” from the short story “A Life for a Life,” written and illustrated by Howard Pyle ( Scribner’s Magazine...

“I do not care very much for professional sightseeing, but while I was in Milan, the hotel being near the Cathedral , I went there to see it...

Photograph of Howard Pyle taken between December 11, 1887, and January 18, 1888 In December 1887, Edwin Wilson Morse, editor of The Book ...

At 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 9, 1906, Howard Pyle delivered a lecture illustrated with steriopticon slides titled “The True Spirit of Ar...

In 1904 Howard Pyle was elected a non-resident member of New York City’s prestigious Century Association - his name having been proposed by...

One of the several lunches Howard Pyle enjoyed at the White House occurred on this day in 1908. This time, Theodore Roosevelt hosted Pyle an...

Around Christmastime 1910, Howard Pyle was able to move his family from the cramped Pensione White “just on the outskirts of the slums” to “...

In a letter dated December 22, 1908, architect Cass Gilbert wrote to Howard Pyle: Your speech at the dinner was a great success. I heard ma...

“The Gothic church of Santa Croce, begun in 1294…was completed in 1442, except the façade, which was added 1857-63. The interior, 128 yds. l...

Here is a poem by Edwin Markham: Art To Howard Pyle At her light touch, behold! a voice proceeds Out of all things to chide our sordid ...

The Yale Club bookplate by Howard Pyle, 1905 (engraved by Edwin Davis French) “I have long admired your very admirable work, and have lo...

On December 10, 1910, Elihu Vedder , the American artist and longtime resident of Italy, called on Howard Pyle at the Grand Continental Hote...

The Sant’ Anna in Naples In the rain and before dawn on December 7, 1910, the Sant’ Anna , carrying Howard Pyle, his family, and his sec...

Did you know that Howard Pyle - at the request of his friend and fellow Wilmingtonian, Emily Perkins Bissell - designed the first nationall...

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 ...