This past July 18th was the 150th anniversary of the Second Battle of Fort Wagner . In 1883, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was commissioned to cr...

It’s Maxfield Parrish’s 143rd birthday today, so here are some Parrish-related posts, in case you’ve overlooked them.

Delaware Today posted a photograph taken by Howard Pyle of his wife and children at Rehoboth Beach. They date it 1890, but it was more lik...

Andrew Wyeth - who was a huge fan of Howard Pyle’s work, who owned quite a few originals (including this amazing one ) as well as Pyle’s of...

If it wasn’t for Denis Byrd’s Blog I would have entirely missed “Howard Pyle and Vincent Van Gogh: Reflections of Changes in Taste” by Dan...

This great op-ed by Shelly Reuben recently appeared at HuntingtonNews.net - and also, apparently, in The Evening Sun of Norwich, New Yor...

On a Friday night 107 years ago this month, N. C. Wyeth wrote to his “Mama” back in Hingham, Massachusetts: This week has gone past lik...

Howard Pyle, sometime poet - or, rather, writer of “jingling verses” as he called them - was also the unwitting subject of several poems. I...

“It tickled a certain sneaking vanity to see how the girls fluttered and twittered at his occasional attentions. They made a pretence of lau...

Many of Howard Pyle’s pictures are well-documented. Some, not so much. For example, correspondence concerning the creation of “The Fate of a...

On May 30, 1903, Augustus Saint-Gaudens ’s Sherman Monument was unveiled at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. Altho...

I just saw this interesting article by Hannah Boettcher on "Fieldwork in Valley Forge" . Among other things, it shows that Howard ...

An illustration from Yankee Doodle by Howard Pyle (1881) 121 years ago today Howard Pyle met the celebrated British artist-illustrator-...

“The Inauguration” by Howard Pyle, engraved by F. S. King Today marks the 224th anniversary of George Washington’s first inauguration as p...

Howard Pyle nudes are few and far between. This one come from the Library of Congress and a super-high-resolution version (43.1 MB) is avai...

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

“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 ...

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...

“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’...

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

“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...

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...

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

“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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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