Howard Pyle
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Staff and The Fiddle and Hints of Parrish

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Howard Pyle’s headpiece for “The Staff and The Fiddle” in Harper’s Young People for August 31, 1886. It was later included - with some slig...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building Confession

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Ever since he finished “The Landing of Carteret” for Cass Gilbert ’s Essex County Court House , Howard Pyle hoped to get another mural comm...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

“I saw a many ‘gruesome’ sights”

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“The stout little old gentleman who ate four fish-balls for breakfast on Sunday” How better to charm a woman than by drawing an old man a...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Howard Pyle Slept Here, Part 1

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Southwest corner of Seventh and West Streets, Wilmington, Delaware (1994) Okay, Howard Pyle may have slept here. I was going through s...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Some Thoughts on Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art

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My once-pristine copy of Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art by Jill P. May and Robert E. May is now full of grubby scribbles ...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

“Delaware, the land of peaches!”

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“A Farm ‘Pluck’” by Howard Pyle (1878) “There are few more beautiful sights than a peach orchard in full bearing, the vistas between the ...
Friday, August 5, 2011

A New Biography of Howard Pyle

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This afternoon I received a review copy of Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art by Jill P. May and Robert E. May, published by ...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

“Out of a Gray Chaos”

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“Paint your picture by means of the lights - imagine that you are bringing moving beings out of a gray chaos and not that you are drawing me...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Edwin Austin Abbey Died 100 Years Ago Today

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“He is a comical little fellow, but quite the gentleman; he wears glasses, and being troubled with dyspepsia, has a habit of grinning in rat...
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An Interrupted Performance

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“An Interrupted Performance” by Howard Pyle (1878), engraved by Frederick Juengling (1880) Most of Howard Pyle’s works appeared in print ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

H.P.S.A. Ahoy!

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“The dim, shadowy forms of vessels riding at anchor in the night” by Howard Pyle (1889) If only. In the correspondence of Howard Pyle’s s...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Howard Pyle’s Palate

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The 1899 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dining at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania* Howard Pyle’s taste in food has always fas...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Lily Lake

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“The Lily Lake” by Howard Pyle (1891) Howard Pyle isn’t known for his landscapes, but he did quite a few over the years, mostly to illustr...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Rules

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“The art-student learns rules for doing things but all the rules in the world would never make a picture. “A great picture can only be mad...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

“Why am I so blue?”

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“All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport...” by Howard Pyle It’s always interesting - interesting to me, at least - to see great minds...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Pyle’s Post-Publication Changes, Part 2

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Howard Pyle was not above reworking a picture after publication. “The Burial of Braddock” is one example: after it appeared in Harper’s Mon...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Perhaps Not Without Snap and Go

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"On sped the light chestnut, with the little officer bending almost to the saddle-bow" On this date 120 years ago - July 15, 18...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

An Evening with Howard Pyle in 1910

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Howard Pyle photographed by J. R. Cummings in 1910 On his blog, James Gurney posted a reading he did from Henry Pitz’s The Brandywine Tra...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

“It was great to see him painting”

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“In the Valley of the Shadows” by Howard Pyle (1902) Mr Pyle likes very much to have us watch him work and the other day we went up to hi...
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"Yahn Show-en-hare" is an illustrator, a genealogist, and a researcher and collector of all things regarding Howard Pyle (1853-1911) and John Schoenherr (1935-2010)
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