Today is the 149th birthday of Katharine Pyle, Howard Pyle’s sister. These two siblings seem to have had a conflicted relationship over t...

“Jack Frost’s Harvest” by Philip L. Hoyt in Harper’s Weekly for December 6, 1902 In an article N. C. Wyeth wrote about Howard Pyle - pu...

HOWARD PYLE, AN APPRECIATION by Henry M. Alden Howard Pyle, whose sudden death at Florence, Italy, November 9th, it is our painful office...

“Whither?” by Howard Pyle (1904) ...Now the fate of the nation lies with us voters to determine. It does not lie with the Republican C...

Howard Pyle made the illustration shown here for William Dean Howells’ “Stops of Various Quills” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for Dece...

Howard Pyle, photographed  by Arthur Ernst Becher in 1902 According to David Michaelis’  N. C. Wyeth: A Biography   it was 110 years ...

Just opened: Celebrating the Line: Outstanding Illustrators, Designers and Cartoonists of The Art Students League of New York which brings ...

"The Old Violin" by Howard Pyle (1893) Next week, one of my favorite Howard Pyle paintings will be sold by Heritage Auctions ....

“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...