That’s good advice, and I really ought to take it - at least when it comes to this blog. Somehow I’ve been neglectful for four months. The...

This Howard Pyle picture went untitled when it appeared in Harper’s Weekly for December 1, 1894, illustrating Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Para...

Pardon the clickbait title, but I couldn’t resist after yesterday’s “news” that a “lost” Sherlock Holmes story “by” Arthur Conan Doyle had c...

Mark Twain and G. W. Cable via www.twainquotes.com On February 13, 1884, author George Washington Cable - then in the midst of an extend...

“A Dream of Young Summer” by Howard Pyle (1901) “As you know,” said Howard Pyle to the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in a letter of Ja...

In his 1918 history of New York City’s venerable Salmagundi Club , club librarian William Henry Shelton recalled a proposal he had made at ...

Howard Pyle’s fondness for the writings of William Dean Howells is well documented - mostly in Pyle’s own correspondence. On October 30, 18...

Although I have yet to find out when exactly Howard Pyle and Theodore Roosevelt first met (the earliest known in-the-same-room-at-the-same-t...

In a post two years ago, I quoted Howard Pyle’s thoughts on the sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye , but I want to expand on that post to show wh...

There are few more iconic photographs of Howard Pyle and his pupils, perhaps, than the one shown here. Its appeal has a lot to do with Miss...

Howard Pyle’s third child, Theodore Pyle, was born 125 years ago today. His birth record (via Familysearch.org) was filled out by Pyle himse...

If you scroll through the Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress, you’ll find this kindly letter to Howard Pyle’s widow - writ...

“The Werewolf” by Howard Pyle in The Ladies’ Home Journal for March 1896 Werewolf? There wolf. (There - no, there , in the middle foregro...

My interest in Howard Pyle owes a lot to my interest in Arthur Conan Doyle . When I was 11 or 12, I became obsessed with Sherlock Holmes a...

According to his diary, John Sloan met Howard Pyle on this day in 1906. Sloan, then, was making his living as an illustrator, but also pain...

“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...