Detail of a photograph of Howard Pyle by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1896) Usually, when imagining Howard Pyle, the Movie , I cast ...

The official trailer of “Howard Pyle and the Illustrated Story” has just gone up on YouTube.

If you’re in the greater Philadelphia or Wilmington area and get the PBS station WHYY, tune in tonight at 10.00 p.m. and watch “Howard Pyle ...

“An Old-time May Day in ‘Merrie England’” by Howard Pyle (1878) About a year after Howard Pyle made his illustration for “The Merrie Mon...

This is probably the first magazine cover ever to feature an illustration by Howard Pyle. It’s not something that Pyle remembered, appar...

“Cap’n Goldsack” by Howard Pyle (1902) Henry Edward Rood, an assistant editor at Harper’s Monthly , got to see Howard Pyle’s original i...

Headpiece for “After Reading Shakspere” by Howard Pyle (1900) I admit I'm more of an Oxfordian than a Stratfordian , and even How...

“The Attack upon the Chew House” by Howard Pyle (1898) On April 19, 1898, Howard Pyle wrote to a fellow member of the Mahogany Tree Club...

Headpiece for “McAndrew’s Hymn” by Howard Pyle (1894) Howard Pyle’s connections to the Titanic disaster are tenuous at best, seeing tha...

“The Sailor’s Wedding” by Howard Pyle (1895) It’s Howard Pyle’s wedding anniversary today: on April 12, 1881, the 28-year-old artist-...

One of the more unusual pieces of “Pyleana” in existence is the mug seen here, which Howard Pyle decorated to help out the Salmagundi...

“My books have never possessed a great or universal popularity, but every year I find them to be more and more read, and every year brings t...

Two years ago I talked about why I believed that Howard Pyle was born in a house on Market Street, between Eighth and Ninth Streets, in Wilm...

In 1893, Howard Pyle designed a stained-glass window which was to be fabricated by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company . “Designed” ...

Another long-lost Howard Pyle painting is about to go on the block at Scottsdale Art Auction on March 31, 2012. It’s Lot 322. “Come, c...

I have no idea what this sounded like, but it was written and sung by Howard Pyle’s students at his 50th birthday banquet on March 5, 1903: ...

A happy birthday to Howard Pyle, born 159 years ago today in Wilmington, Delaware. (And I still think it happened at 224 Market Street .)

“ Macarooned ” “Marooned” by Howard Pyle (1909) The Delaware Art Museum’s lovely, landmark show, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscov...

As early as 1880, Augustus Saint-Gaudens sought the 27-year-old Howard Pyle’s advice on the proper costume for his statue of Robert Richard ...

This little exchange between W. D. Howells and his (unnamed) friend Howard Pyle appeared in Howells’ “Life and Letters” column in Harper’s W...

“I do not mean to belittle Dickens but do you not think that the self-sacrifice of the hero in - Little Doret [ sic ] is it - is just a lit...

On September 13, 1903, Howard Pyle jotted down this drawing in a little notebook belonging to his student Thornton Oakley. Some years later...

“After all, it is the result of my words that will tell, and not the words themselves. If I may help and inspire young artists with an exalt...

“Myles, as in a dream, kneeled, and presented the letter” illustrates the following passage from the second installment of Howard Pyle’s nov...

“Some took his time” by Howard Pyle is an illustration for “How the Old Horse Won the Bet” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, which formed part of Th...

Howard Pyle illustrated two books by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes for the 1891 and 1892 holiday seasons, so it was only natural that the publi...

“Mr. Leuba” by Howard Pyle (1890) Poor “Mr. Leuba” - he didn’t go far. He appeared in James Lane Allen’s “Flute and Violin” in Harper’s Ne...

While sitting, tethered to my drawing table pretty constantly for three months, I often wondered what it would be like to stand and draw. T...

“Hey, black cat! hey, my pretty black cat” by Howard Pyle (1891) “I send you to-day the three drawings for Giles Corey Yeoman and return ...

My blogging slowed drastically due to a book project that proved more time consuming than I expected. But maybe I can balance or juggle more...