tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:49:40 +0000mythologicalgouache1899piratesFrank SchooonoverEdwin Davis French1900Boutet de Monvel187519041891WilmingtondeathWilliam Pylefairy talesGeorge WashingtonChadds Fordchildren'sFrancis Davis MilletRehobothEdwin Austin AbbeyModernAbraham LincolncharcoalWashington IrvingCass GilbertPre-RaphaelitesWoodrow WilsonAllen Tupper True190518661892teacheryouthEvery EveningbookplatesHarper’s Weekly1883Theodore Rooseveltletters1898Sellers PylephotographobituaryHarpers Young PeoplePlayers ClubCharles Parsons1889ephemeraoiltravelsNew YorkItalyN. C. WyethDarleyChristmasHowells1893Man with the HoecatsOliver Wendell HolmeswitchesElihu VedderJohn Henderson BettsSarah S. StilwellWilliam Howard TaftArt Students' LeagueWinslow Homer1876lettering1888The Wonder Clockon artmuralColonial1881colorDickensColonies and NationCivil Warillustration1894peachesbiography1996studioinitialTravels of the SoulFord Madox Browninkpencil1880American historyinteriorTwilight LandJean François MilletEphratasketches18791908188718951903allegoricalBotticelliRudyard KiplingRaphaelfablesPierre Puvis de ChavannesYale ClubCresson18781870biographicalMother1871Harper and BrothersDelaware Art MuseumFrederic RemingtonMaxfield Parrishfriends1886jestersM. C. PyleEdwin Markham18961911Men of Iron186919091910studentsYaleGeorge De Forest Brush1902politicsArthur Burdett FrostAugustus Saint GaudensChincoteagueDrexel Institute1885William Henry JacksonMark TwainArthur Conan DoyleJohn Everett MilletHoward PyleMediaevalMarylandHarper's Young People1901foodCentury Association1897Battle of NashvillereligionKing Arthurverse1890landscapeNathaniel HawthorneDrexelBrandywine River MuseumPepper and SaltA blog devoted to the life and work of Howard Pyle (1853-1911), the American artist, author, and teacher.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)Blogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2505612368231418895Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:49:00 +00002012-02-07T07:49:40.936-05:00Dickens“I do not mean to belittle Dickens but do you not think that the self-sacrifice of the hero in - Little Doret [sic] is it - is just a little cheap and tawdry? Do you not think that ‘Little Nell’ is just a trifle over-sentimental?” Howard Pyle to Frank W. Hoyt, February 27, 1892http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/02/pyle-on-dickens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-423253815171263426Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:06:00 +00002012-02-02T17:06:13.545-05:00piratesinkChadds Ford1903 On September 13, 1903, Howard Pyle jotted down this drawing in a little notebook belonging to his student Thornton Oakley. Some years later, when Merle Johnson was compiling Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates, Oakley allowed it to be reproduced. Today, this 3.25 x 5.75" scrap was auctioned off at Freeman’s in Philadelphia. And as a testament to the enduring allure of Pyle’s pirates, it sold - withhttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/02/ye-pirate-bold-and-bloody-expensive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-1124396199627633739Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:41:00 +00002012-02-02T08:41:57.392-05:001905teacher“After all, it is the result of my words that will tell, and not the words themselves. If I may help and inspire young artists with an exalted idea of their mission, and if an improvement of their work is the result, then I shall have served my mission, and it will not matter in the least whether my words are recorded or not recorded.”Howard Pyle to Marie-Marguerite Frechette, February 2, 1905.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/02/yes-mr-pyle-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-1172146132050834726Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:11:00 +00002012-01-27T20:11:42.320-05:00children'soil1890MediaevalHarper's Young PeopleMen of Iron“Myles, as in a dream, kneeled, and presented the letter” illustrates the following passage from the second installment of Howard Pyle’s novel Men of Iron in Harper's Young People for January 27, 1891: [The Earl of Mackworth] was a tall man, taller even than Myles’s father. He had a thin face, deep-set bushy eyebrows, and a hawk nose. His upper lip was clean shaven, but from his chin a flowing http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/myles-as-in-dream-kneeled-and-presented.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-5384853883496440579Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:20:00 +00002012-01-25T18:20:08.424-05:0019051891Oliver Wendell Holmesink“Some took his time” by Howard Pyle is an illustration for “How the Old Horse Won the Bet” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, which formed part of The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in 1905. For this project, the publisher supplied Pyle with proofs - printed on Bristol board - of the illustrations he had made for the 1891 edition of the book, which Pyle thenhttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/some-took-his-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-661834236239177965Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:45:00 +00002012-01-24T10:45:41.655-05:00oilOliver Wendell Holmes1893Howard Pyle illustrated two books by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes for the 1891 and 1892 holiday seasons, so it was only natural that the publisher, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., would want him to illustrate the one slated for 1893. Pyle, though, had second thoughts: this was around the time he declared that he “intended to do no book illustrations, except in connection with [his] own writings.” But Arthttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/good-old-doctor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-5844167050545159040Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:04:00 +00002012-01-23T07:04:50.560-05:001890inkColonial “Mr. Leuba” by Howard Pyle (1890) Poor “Mr. Leuba” - he didn’t go far. He appeared in James Lane Allen’s “Flute and Violin” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for December 1890, but when the Howard Pyle-illustrated story came out in book form the following May, he was nowhere to be seen. Well, not exactly. In one of the other illustrations - “It was a very gay dinner” - which did appear in both http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/mr-leuba.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3537555580802102474Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:27:00 +00002012-01-22T12:27:53.157-05:00studioWhile sitting, tethered to my drawing table pretty constantly for three months, I often wondered what it would be like to stand and draw. That’s what Howard Pyle did, sometimes. Legend has it that he even had a drawing desk custom-made at just the right height so that he could comfortably draw - or write - standing up. I had pictured it being like an old fashioned, four-legged schoolmaster’s http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/howard-pyles-drawing-desk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2487407645975830844Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +00002012-01-08T09:46:02.101-05:00oil1892ColonialAmerican history “Hey, black cat! hey, my pretty black cat” by Howard Pyle (1891) “I send you to-day the three drawings for Giles Corey Yeoman and return enclosed the MS.,“ wrote Howard Pyle to Arthur B. Turnure of Harper & Brothers on January 6, 1892. “I hope you will like the drawings; I do not know whether it was doing them for a new Art Editor or not but I found a considerable difficulty in getting them to http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/hey-black-cat-hey-my-pretty-black-cat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-6772716601390747519Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:21:00 +00002011-12-31T14:21:38.019-05:001880American historyMy blogging slowed drastically due to a book project that proved more time consuming than I expected. But maybe I can balance or juggle more in 2012. Until then, take a look at Howard Pyle’s “New-Year’s Hymn to St. Nicholas” which he painted in May 1880 for “A Glimpse of an Old Dutch Town” by Mrs. M. P. Ferris (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, March 1881).http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-years-hymn-to-st-nicholas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3263635654373006658Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:06:00 +00002011-12-25T08:09:20.802-05:00oil1891Mediaeval“The First Christmas Tree” by Howard Pyle illustrated “The Oak of Geismar” by Henry Van Dyke in Scribner’s Magazine for December 1891. It was engraved on wood by Walter Montieth Aikman.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/12/first-christmas-tree.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-5055424156588729812Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:57:00 +00002011-11-27T12:57:00.386-05:001878New York1879biography Yes, Howard Pyle slept here. He also worked here, about ten years before this photograph was taken. The address is (well, was) 788 Broadway at Tenth Street in New York City, right next to James Renwick’s Grace Church. Fleischmann’s Vienna Model Bakery was on the street level, and, as Pyle’s friend James Edward Kelly recalled: “The upper floors of the building were full of little artist http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/howard-pyle-slept-here-part-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3312701394218819101Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:02:00 +00002011-11-24T09:02:46.979-05:00ColonialAmerican history1895“The Enemy at the Door” by Howard Pyle, from “Some Thanksgiving-Time Fancies” in Scribner’s Magazine for November 1895.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-time-fancy-from-howard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3023134903429448284Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:39:00 +00002011-11-21T09:39:35.504-05:00Ford Madox Brown1904Delaware Art MuseumPre-Raphaelites “Lear and Cordelia” (1849-54) by Ford Madox Brown Despite his self-described “hermit-like” existence, Howard Pyle didn’t live in a vacuum, and one of the major points of the the new exhibit and book, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, is that his work was informed by myriad sources: from Winslow Homer to Japanese art to James Tissot to Walter Crane. From his childhood, Pyle was also http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/howard-pyle-on-ford-madox-brown_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-1609258690069205524Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:57:00 +00002011-11-20T09:57:39.246-05:00ItalyBrandywine River MuseumDelaware Art MuseumA little over a week ago, I finally visited the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and saw their Howard Pyle exhibit, which just closed. It was absolutely worth seeing, especially since they put the bulk of their extensive Pyle holdings on view. A couple of things I’d never heard of or seen in person: sketches, studies, drawings, paintings, photos - a real cornucopia of Pylean http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/two-howard-pyle-exhibits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2447850658002360046Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:20:00 +00002011-11-21T09:47:41.330-05:00Delaware Art MuseumSalon features an interview with Margaretta Frederick, Chief Curator of the Delaware Art Museum, where the new Howard Pyle exhibit just opened. The piece also includes a slideshow. One minor correction to the slideshow: the photograph of Pyle in his studio (pretending to paint the already-finished “The Evacuation of Charlestown”) was taken by C. P. M. Rumford (not “Runeford”), most likely in http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/howard-pyle-in-salon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2684961447422586898Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:52:00 +00002011-11-09T18:52:45.412-05:00obituary1911friendsbiography Howard Pyle grinning in Italy, a few months before his death in 1911 Almost immediately after Howard Pyle died - 100 years ago today - his friends and acquaintances began to record their thoughts about him. I’ve always been fond of one particular reminiscence written and published on the very day of Pyle’s death in the Boston Evening Transcript. The author was the journalist Edward Noble http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/friend-remembers-howard-pyle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8789545088892606986Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:01:00 +00002011-11-09T16:01:21.112-05:00Delaware Art MuseumA behind the scenes look at the Pyle exhibit opening this Saturday, November 12th, at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/behind-scenes-at-delaware-art-museum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-4097048467966290258Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:28:00 +00002011-11-09T07:28:39.632-05:00Italydeath1911biographyWhat did Howard Pyle die of? Most contemporary newspapers reported that it was “heart failure” or “heart disease”. The more common notion - via those closer to the Pyle family - is that it was “kidney trouble” or Bright’s Disease - and his known symptoms are consistent with that diagnosis. And still another, also kidney-related cause of death can be found in the “Report of the Death of an http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-did-howard-pyle-die-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-1269918072240152992Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:34:00 +00002011-11-09T17:46:15.132-05:00death1892religionbiography“To me Death is a most interesting change to look forward to and the other life is as certain a thing to me as the passing from one room to another room - except that it means just such a vital and radical change as that of a seed that quits its dead casing of earth to become a tree in the sunshine and air of the area.” - Howard Pyle to Richard Watson Gilder, October 5, 1892 http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/hoiward-pyle-on-death.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-206069308598831049Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:40:00 +00002011-11-08T18:40:20.244-05:00Italy1911Howard Pyle died on November 9, 1911, in Italy at 4.30 a.m. - so it was still November 8th in Wilmington, Delaware, no?http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/100-years-ago-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3998154725561983959Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:48:00 +00002011-11-04T09:48:05.857-04:001883studiobiographyFrom the Sunday Morning Star of Wilmington, Delaware, November 4, 1883: http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/hot-air-at-howard-pyles-studio.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2759092959878620939Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:55:00 +00002011-11-01T11:55:48.970-04:00Delaware Art MuseumI just received a copy of Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered - the brand new book which complements the exhibition of the same name at the Delaware Art Museum. It’s pretty gorgeous: lots of pictures - as well as essays on different aspects of Pyle’s work. Get one from: University of Pennyslvania Press IndieBound Amazon Barnes and Noble http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/howard-pyle-american-master.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8709211366999929127Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:41:00 +00002011-11-01T10:41:27.329-04:00children's18851887The Wonder ClockinkHarpers Young PeoplePepper and Salt Title-page drawing for The Wonder Clock (“1887” was changed to “1888” in the first edition of book) No, you won’t find a major exhibition of Howard Pyle’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - for that you’ll have to go to Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (RIGHT NOW!), Wilmington, Delaware (starting November 12!), and Stockbridge, Massachusetts (next year!), where his work is genuinelyhttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/howard-pyle-at-metropolitan-museum-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8465924395169384864Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:44:00 +00002011-10-21T15:44:55.787-04:001887mythological“Deianeira and the Dying Centaur Nessus” by Howard Pyle (1887) Isn’t this picture lovely? I never really gave it much attention before. Howard Pyle painted it in 1887 for A Story of The Golden Age by James Baldwin, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Even the small (3.7 x 4.6"), early halftone reproduction is pretty good. The original is still out there, somewhere, but it almost certainly is http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2011/10/deianeira-and-dying-centaur-nessus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2