“I used to earn a little odd money by drawing an occasional comic,” wrote Howard Pyle in his scrapbook about some of the work he did when he...

I revamped a post  I wrote four years ago about Theodore Roosevelt’s day 110 years ago today - which included lunch with Howard Pyle. I even...

A semi-desperate attempt on my part to post something “Irish” on this St. Patrick’s Day: “The Queen of Ireland seeks to slay Sir Tristram” c...

In honor of Howard Pyle’s 161st birthday, here are a few kind words from some of his friends and admirers: “You write about a beautiful sh...

I’ve mentioned my mini-obsession with Howard Pyle’s boots before . They’re the ones that show up again and again in over 25 years’ worth of ...

“Ruins of Old Post Tavern” by Howard Pyle (1879) In the summer of 1879, two 26-year-olds set off to Maryland to gather data for an articl...

I just learned that Howard Pyle’s oldest surviving grandson, Howard Pyle Brokaw, passed away. I’ll collect my thoughts and write more about ...

“As for Rome, I hate it,” wrote an ailing Howard Pyle to Stanley Arthurs on December 16, 1910. “I was in my room all the time but twice, an...

“I feel very much gratified indeed that my pictures should attract such favorable attention in Green Bay. They seem to have been a great dea...

Howard Pyle’s 1906 Self-Portrait (Collection of the National Academy of Design) Howard Pyle took lots and lots of photographs - at least...

Four days after Abraham Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - and about 100 miles east of there - Howard Pyle’s youngest sister Kath...

“The Dancer” as it appeared in Harper’s Monthly for December 1899 There are certain Howard Pyle pictures which I’ve only ever seen in po...

In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day here is something from Howard Pyle. “The Song of Captain Kidd” is, in fact, one of Pyle’...

This link probably won’t be viable for ever, but it gives us a look inside the Howard Pyle Studios in Wilmington - particularly of the seld...

Another seldom seen Howard Pyle illustration. This one was Pyle’s sole contribution to The Inca Princess by Mrs. M. B. M. Toland, published...

A long lost, modern, summertime scene from Howard Pyle. “The young fellow lounged in a rattan chair” illustrated his own story, “A Modern Ma...

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...