“Deianeira and the Dying Centaur Nessus” by Howard Pyle (1887) Isn’t this picture lovely? I never really gave it much attention before. Ho...

It’s the anniversary of the death of William Pyle - Howard’s father. He suffered a stroke while on a business trip and died in a Boston hosp...

Don’t let the introductory graphics set to a disco beat throw you: this new video is a good, succinct announcement for the BIG Howard Pyle ...

Headband for A History of New York (The Grolier Club, 1886) by Howard Pyle “I asked Mr. Pyle for a list of books he would recommend to m...

This is one of four playing cards featuring Howard Pyle in The Fireside Game Company’s Young Folks’ Favorite Authors , which was manufacture...

Today is the 108th birthday of Miss Mary Asenath Ball, who sent a fan letter to Howard Pyle when she was seven years old. Her letter is lost...

Decorated title for “Good Gifts and a Fool’s Folly”- Harper’s Young People version (1890) Decorated title for “Good Gifts and a Fool’s F...

I was just looking through Howard Pyle’s under-appreciated book of fairy tales, Twilight Land , and came across this picture: the untitled t...

With the exception of sketches, doodles, and embellished inscriptions in books, the bulk of Howard Pyle’s pictures have been published at on...

On September 9, 1911, Howard Pyle’s sons Theodore (22) and Howard Jr. (20) sailed on the S. S. Canopic from Genoa, Italy, bound for Boston ...

Still more video showing the insides and outsides of Howard Pyle’s studio buildings at 1305 Franklin Street in Wilmington, Delaware.

I just noticed this video on Howard Pyle. Not all of it is accurate, but there are lots of images and much footage taken in and around his...

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...

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

“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...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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...

“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...

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

“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...

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

“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...