The great illustrator Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821-1888) lived and worked in Delaware at the same time that Howard Pyle was coming of a...

In the early 1890s, when Howard Pyle was very much under the literary spell of his friend W. D. Howells , he wrote a handful of “realist” ...

“...to have a drawing accepted and published is a sure sign that the work is above the average. There is no better criterion of fundamental ...

Howard Pyle’s “We started to run back to the raft for our lives” from “Sindbad on Burrator” by A. T. Quiller Couch in Scribner's Magazi...

Figure 1. “Her whisper was so soft he only guessed the words“ from "The Stairway of Honor" by Maud Stepney Rawson in  Harper's...

From “The Divinity of Labor,” a commencement address delivered by Howard Pyle to the graduates of Delaware College on June 16, 1897: When y...

The United States Treasury Department at Washington, from a photograph by Alexander Gardner (1866) “You aught to see the treasury bilding...

Villa Torricella, Summer 1911 (Eleanor and Phoebe Pyle in the distance) One hundred years ago today - June 14, 1911 - Howard Pyle and hi...

I’ve read in more than one place that, once Howard Pyle decided to establish his own school, he resigned from the Drexel Institute (in a Feb...

Howard Pyle’s “Then appeared suddenly, a little beyond the light of the lamp, the spirit of Kurban Sahib” illustrated Rudyard Kipling ’s sh...

This doesn’t look 113 years old, but it’s from Howard Pyle’s “A True History of the Devil at New Hope” in Harper’s Weekly for December 18, ...

The June 7, 1879, issue of Harper’s Weekly featured this full-page (12 x 8.9") illustrated poem titled “The Robin’s Vesper” by Howard ...

Behold, two great versions - two great visions - of the same scene from Kidnapped : “I saw him pass his sword through the mate’s body” by...

“Blackbeard's last fight” by Howard Pyle (1894) Finally, some pirates. On June 4, 1894, Howard Pyle sent the last two illustrations...

Last year I posted something about John Henderson Betts, who studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute and at Chadd’s Ford, but who ...

Howard Pyle’s summer home in 1911: Villa Torricella, San Domenico, Florence, Italy “This is now the first of June, and two weeks hence we...

In 1866, 13-year-old Howard Pyle, then visiting Washington, D.C., wrote to his father, “Please tell me in thy letter wether I can stay [in] ...

“In Memoriam” by Miss Sophie B. Steel Last year on St. Valentine’s Day I posted an article about the holiday written by Howard Pyle and...

Would you like to own Howard Pyle’s “In the Prison” from Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir Mitchell? Now’s your chance. The original 18 ...

The following tidbit comes from the article “Artist-Authors” by Alpheus Sherwin Cody in the May 26, 1894, issue of The Outlook : Howard Py...

Not all of Howard Pyle’s illustrations just “fell off his brush” - I mean, where his concept was vivid enough that he could go straight from...

On May 19, 1896, Howard Pyle wrote to Woodrow Wilson: In thinking over the subject for this Sixth Washington Article, I would suggest, by y...

STIBBERT MUSEUM, housed in the Villa Stibbert, at Montughi, about a mile and a half beyond the Porta San Gallo. Open on Tuesday, Thursday, ...

“If it is a legitimate product, such as the DuPont Co.’s or an Insurance Co. or something of a like nature, I think the work is dignified an...

Little is known about this Howard Pyle sketch, but I don’t doubt its authenticity. While the “modern day” costume of the disheveled, Charles...

On May 2, 1909, a syndicated article appeared in newspapers across the United States. The writer was James B. Morrow and the subject was How...