“Washington in the Garden at Mount Vernon” by Howard Pyle (1896) What was on the mind of Howard Pyle - then in the midst of illustrating ...

Olive Rush and Ethel Pennewill Brown in Howard Pyle’s Studio in 1911 or 1912 (Blanche C. Grant, photographer) I was looking for this pict...

Ethel Pennewill Brown in Howard Pyle’s studio, 1911 Olive Rush, Blanche Grant, and Ethel Pennewill Brown in Howard Pyle’s studio, 1911 ...

Howard Pyle (1896) by Frances Benjamin Johnston It’s Howard Pyle’s 158th birthday today. If you’re curious about where exactly he was bor...

From  Harper's Weekly for March 4, 1882 : Washington’s Birth-Day by Howard Pyle The breakfast china stood in rows, And all was s...

“Enter Fourth of July bowing and followed by Washington’s Birthday” by Howard Pyle from “The Revolt of the Holidays” by E. I. Stevenson ( H...

“Abraham Lincoln” by Howard Pyle (1907) On this day 150 years ago - February 21, 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived in Philad...

“As to the Bargello , which was once the judgment hall and the state prison of Florence, but which is now a Museum, there are treasures bey...

“The Strozzi Palace is perfect, and is even yet lived in by a remnant of the Strozzi family. All around the palace there are link holes in...

Howard Pyle (right) in the summer of 1878 as depicted by his friend and fellow illustrator Arthur Burdett Frost ( Harper’s New Monthly Magaz...

“Mr. Pyle enjoys teasing the maids, especially Lina, just how he wants his egg, due minuti [e] mezzo ; he will not learn Italian, found that...

Above is the earliest known letter written on this date by Howard Pyle. It is addressed to Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), the “Bank...

“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...