Howard Pyle
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

An Interview About Howard Pyle

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Last month, PCNTV aired an hour-long interview with Heather Campbell Coyle about Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered . And now you ca...

The Good, Aged Doctor

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“The Good, Aged Doctor”  by Howard Pyle (1899) “The Good, Aged Doctor” - or, more precisely, “The good, aged Doctor, the appearance of w...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Ticket to Pyle

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On December 4, 1903, Howard Pyle and his wife, Anne, traveled from Chicago to Indianapolis via the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St....
Friday, November 23, 2012

The Sad Story of a Little Boy That Cried

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Today is the 149th birthday of Katharine Pyle, Howard Pyle’s sister. These two siblings seem to have had a conflicted relationship over t...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A Typical Yankee Named Hoyt

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“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...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Howard Pyle, An Appreciation

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HOWARD PYLE, AN APPRECIATION by Henry M. Alden Howard Pyle, whose sudden death at Florence, Italy, November 9th, it is our painful office...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

How Are We Going to Vote This Year?

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“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...
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Howard Pyle’s Sphynx

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Howard Pyle made the illustration shown here for William Dean Howells’ “Stops of Various Quills” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for Dece...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

N. C. Wyeth Meets Howard Pyle

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Howard Pyle, photographed  by Arthur Ernst Becher in 1902 According to David Michaelis’  N. C. Wyeth: A Biography   it was 110 years ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Howard Pyle at the Art Students League

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Just opened: Celebrating the Line: Outstanding Illustrators, Designers and Cartoonists of The Art Students League of New York which brings ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"The Old Violin" and a "New" Pyle Student

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"The Old Violin" by Howard Pyle (1893) Next week, one of my favorite Howard Pyle paintings will be sold by Heritage Auctions ....
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Haunted House

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“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...
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Monday, September 3, 2012

A Thread Without a Knot

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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....
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Pyle on Barye

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“Greyhound and Hare” by Antoine-Louis Barye During his August 29, 1904, composition lecture, Howard Pyle said: Barye is one of the very...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Pyle Talk Today

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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...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Me Talk Pyle One Day

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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...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

What Will the Author Think?

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“Appreciative praise is always delightful, especially so from an author whom one has been called upon to illustrate. I always wonder what ef...
Monday, July 9, 2012

“Reading the Declaration before Washington’s Army, New York, July 9, 1776”

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“Reading the Declaration before Washington’s Army, New York, July 9, 1776” by Howard Pyle (1892) According to George Washington’s Gener...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

“He lay awhile conscious of great comfort”

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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...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

“Serious Advice” - Seriously?

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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...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Is This Young Howard Pyle?

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Figure 1. Young man photographed by Emily Webb, Wilmington, Delaware, 1870s Is this young Howard Pyle? I don’t know. But I really, real...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

A Semi-Lost Howard Pyle Student

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Portrait of Elisabeth Moore Hallowell by Violet Oakley (via Pook and Pook ) In 1872, Howard Pyle, 19 and fresh out of art school, rente...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Marginal Greatness from “A Puppet of Fate”

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Relatively primitive - and slightly off-register - color printing, but still a fine marginal illustration by Howard Pyle. It’s untitled a...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

On “The Story of Adhelmar”

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“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...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

Howard Pyle at the Norman Rockwell Museum

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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...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Abbey and Pyle Entangled

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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...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Taking Pyle for Granted?

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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...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Howard Pyle’s Speech

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