Howard Pyle
Friday, November 27, 2015

Margaret of Cortona

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“...the illustration for ‘Margaret of Cortona’ is now in the possession of Mrs. Dan Bates, to whom I gave it some years ago,” wrote Howard P...
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Monday, November 9, 2015

“Surprised by the Hero of Seventy Fights”

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“Surprised by the Hero of Seventy Fights - The Good Lord James of Douglas” - another long lost work by Howard Pyle - will be sold at auction...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Study for “Life in an Old Dutch Town”

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Study for “Life in an Old Dutch Town” by Howard Pyle (1910) Howard Pyle’s 16.5 x 71" oil on canvas study for his mural “Life in an Ol...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Return in Ten Days to Howard Pyle...

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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...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Another Picture for Arthur Conan Doyle

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This Howard Pyle picture went untitled when it appeared in Harper’s Weekly for December 1, 1894, illustrating Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Para...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

A Forgotten Tale by Arthur Conan Doyle!

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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...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Mark Twain and Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood

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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...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

A Nice Trade

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“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...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

“A mug, a pipe and a pleasant Friend or two”

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In his 1918 history of New York City’s venerable Salmagundi Club , club librarian William Henry Shelton recalled a proposal he had made at ...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

“No American Writer Can Come Within Touch of You”

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Howard Pyle’s fondness for the writings of William Dean Howells is well documented - mostly in Pyle’s own correspondence. On October 30, 18...
Monday, October 27, 2014

A Birthday Card for Theodore Roosevelt

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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...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Pyle on Barye and Wyeth

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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...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

A Valley Forge Picnic, 1899

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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...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Howard Pyle Filled Out His Son’s Birth Record

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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...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Teddy Roosevelt Checks In With Mrs. Pyle

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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...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Howard Pyle’s Werewolf

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“The Werewolf” by Howard Pyle in The Ladies’ Home Journal for March 1896 Werewolf? There wolf. (There - no, there , in the middle foregro...
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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Howard Pyle and Arthur Conan Doyle, Part 1

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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...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Howard Pyle Meets With John Sloan, May 1, 1906

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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...
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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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