Behold Howard Pyle’s exquisitely delicate depiction of the fire that destroyed part of lower Manhattan 240 years ago. He made this pen a...

Five costume designs for “Springtime” by Howard Pyle (1909) - via Northeast Auctions Howard Pyle’s stint as a Broadway costume designer ...

Howard Pyle’s cover design for the January 1900 issue of McClure’s Magazine is not necessarily his best work, nor is it very well known: i...

“...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...

“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...

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...

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...