“The Haunted House” was built, as it were, by Howard Pyle for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s story “The Gold” in the December 1904 issue of Harpe...

I couldn’t let Labor Day and “official” summer pass by without posting this delicate and relatively unknown pen-and-ink gem by Howard Pyle....

“Greyhound and Hare” by Antoine-Louis Barye During his August 29, 1904, composition lecture, Howard Pyle said: Barye is one of the very...

Well, I’ve cobbled together 118 slides and will somehow squeeze them into 40 minutes to an hour of Howard Pyle talk tonight at 5.30pm at the...

It’s official: next Thursday, August 16th, at 5.30pm, I’ll be talking about Howard Pyle at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massac...

“Appreciative praise is always delightful, especially so from an author whom one has been called upon to illustrate. I always wonder what ef...

“Reading the Declaration before Washington’s Army, New York, July 9, 1776” by Howard Pyle (1892) According to George Washington’s Gener...

It’s a beautiful day, so here’s a beautiful Howard Pyle painting of a beautiful day. The reproduction is dodgy and the original painting is...

I remember when I first saw this illustrated verse by Howard Pyle: I thought, “Wait a second - THIS isn’t in Pepper & Salt !” No, it...

Figure 1. Young man photographed by Emily Webb, Wilmington, Delaware, 1870s Is this young Howard Pyle? I don’t know. But I really, real...

Portrait of Elisabeth Moore Hallowell by Violet Oakley (via Pook and Pook ) In 1872, Howard Pyle, 19 and fresh out of art school, rente...

Relatively primitive - and slightly off-register - color printing, but still a fine marginal illustration by Howard Pyle. It’s untitled a...

“He found Mélite alone” by Howard Pyle (1904) “I am most pleased that my illustrations for your Story of Adhelmar should have met with yo...

The Rush from the New York Stock Exchange on September 18, 1873, 1895 Howard Pyle (1853-1911)  Oil on panel, 18 x 11 7/8 inches Delawar...

Entangled - Drawn by E. A. Abbey, from a Sketch by H. Pyle ( Harper’s Weekly , January 19, 1878) In his memoir, A World Worth While: A R...

It seems strange to me that all these years people have apparently taken Howard Pyle for granted, and yet scarcely written a word about him...

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” ...