Howard Pyle
Friday, March 29, 2013

Howard Pyle Lecture in Reading, PA - Tonight!

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I only just saw this, so apologies for the short notice! The Delaware Art Museum's Curator of American Art, Heather Campbell Coyle - w...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Blueskin Stands Up

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“He lay silent and still, with his face half buried in the sand” (1890) Howard Pyle painted “He lay silent and still, with his face half ...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Pyle used to do that to his paintings now and then

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I spent Friday in the Delaware Art Museum ’s library and among the many things I looked at (again) were three enormous, leather-bound scrap...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

The Late Catherine de Vaucelles

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“Catherine de Vaucelles, in her garden” by Howard Pyle (1904) What do you think of this Howard Pyle painting? It’s not so bad, right? It’...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Happy 160th Birthday, Howard Pyle!

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

“It looks very much posed”

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The above photograph, showing Howard Pyle with “The Evacuation of Charlestown” on his easel in his Wilmington studio, has now and then been...
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When Howard Pyle “Struck Pan”

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“The little pink finger and the huge black index came to a full stop under this commandment” “Work is beginning to roll in upon me at l...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Howard Pyle: From Idea to Illustration

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On Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 11.30 a.m., I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Howard Pyle: From Idea to Illustration” at the Delaware Art Muse...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Gamboling in the Great Game of Human Redemption

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Crisis Magazine recently featured an interesting review of - or, rather, an essay on - Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood as...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

Howard Pyle and the Groundhog

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“According to the tradition of the ‘ground-hog’ the weather should have broken by now, but this time the ‘ground-hog’ was a prophet neither ...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Poor Richard

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Howard Pyle drew “Poor Richard” for the programme/menu of the Franklin Inn Club ’s celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 200th birthday held o...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Pyle, Taft, and the Panama Canal

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On January 5, 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pyle attended the Cabinet Dinner at the White House, where they dined on Harlequin Sandwiches, Potag...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Frank E. Schoonover - A Long Life in Art

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Yes, yet another Pyle-related video to watch . Here, the story of Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972), one of Howard Pyle’s longest-lived and mo...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

A Film About Allen Tupper True

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Allen Tupper True Denver-born artist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955) joined Howard Pyle’s class in May 1902 and his abundant letters home ...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

In Praise of Cass Gilbert

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Cass Gilbert, circa 1907 (via the Minnesota Historical Society) “Your own life has been a life of success gratifying to all your friend...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Raising the First National Flag, January 1, 1776

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“Raising the First American Flag, January 1, 1776” by C. O. DeLand No, this isn’t a long-lost Howard Pyle: it’s by Clyde Osmer DeLand, w...
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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...
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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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