tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:40:47 +0000mythologicalpiratesEdwin Davis FrenchHoward Pyle: American Master Rediscovered187518911904deathfairy talesWilliam PyleGeorge Washingtonchildren'sEdward W. BokAbraham LincolnBenjamin Franklin1884Henry Cabot LodgecharcoalCass Gilbert190518661892youthvideobookplatesHarper’s Weekly1883Theodore RooseveltlettersSellers PyleAnna W. HoopesLouis Daniel GowingobituaryephemeratravelsNew YorkmugMrs. Henry DudeneyN. C. 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StilwellArt Students' LeagueWilliam Howard TaftletteringAutocrat of the Breakfast-Table1888The Century MagazinecolorDickensColonies and NationillustrationBaryestudioinitialTravels of the Soulinterior187918871903BotticelliEdmund Clarence StedmanRudyard KiplingTitanicHenry Mills AldenWarwick DeepingRaphaelPierre Puvis de Chavannes1878Violet Oakley1870Franklin Inn ClubMaxfield Parrish1886friendsClyde Osmer DelandMen of Iron1910studentspolitics1902ChincoteagueAugustus Saint Gaudens1885Robin HoodWilliam Henry JacksonMark Twain1901foodCentury AssociationBattle of Nashvillereligionverselandscape1890Nathaniel HawthornePepper 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)Blogger342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8650201490004550301Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:39:00 +00002013-06-04T16:39:07.525-04:00Augustus Saint Gaudensfriends1903 On May 30, 1903, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Sherman Monument was unveiled at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. Although there’s no known evidence that Howard Pyle was present at the ceremony, we do know that he saw it in place within the next few days. Pyle, who delivered an address at Yale University’s School of Fine Arts in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 1, and passed http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/06/pyle-on-saint-gaudenss-sherman-monument.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2897708201434548009Thu, 30 May 2013 13:09:00 +00002013-05-30T09:09:02.502-04:001909biographyI just saw this interesting article by Hannah Boettcher on "Fieldwork in Valley Forge". Among other things, it shows that Howard Pyle visited Valley Forge on September 18, 1909, and signed the Washington Memorial Chapel guestbook, along with his wife and son Godfrey, as well as two Wilmington friends, John Warner (1884-1911) and his mother, Mary Cowgill Corbit Warner (1848-1923), who probably http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/05/howard-pyle-at-valley-forge-1909.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2286517612862520749Thu, 02 May 2013 23:07:00 +00002013-05-02T19:07:48.679-04:00Edward W. Bok1892Walter Cranebiography An illustration from Yankee Doodle by Howard Pyle (1881) 121 years ago today Howard Pyle met the celebrated British artist-illustrator-designer-decorator-author Walter Crane in Philadelphia. Although Pyle’s known correspondence and writings are (so far) void of any Crane letters or mentions, Crane was clearly a big influence on Pyle - particularly on his work from the early 1880s, like http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/05/howard-pyle-meets-walter-crane.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-4272778143118721020Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:39:00 +00002013-04-30T18:39:19.504-04:00Harper’s MonthlyGeorge Washington18891888American historyWoodrow Wilson “The Inauguration” by Howard Pyle, engraved by F. S. King Today marks the 224th anniversary of George Washington’s first inauguration as president of the United States. The ceremony was held April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in the city of New York - then the new nation’s capitol. Howard Pyle pictured this great event at least twice. He painted his first versionhttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/04/george-washingtons-first-inauguration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3479199052775011086Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:05:00 +00002013-04-13T19:05:42.779-04:00inkallegoricalHoward Pyle nudes are few and far between. This one come from the Library of Congress and a super-high-resolution version (43.1 MB) is available for download and microscopic inspection. The story behind this pen and ink drawing is a mystery: it almost looks like something made for publication, but perhaps the publisher - or Pyle himself - found it too racy for Victorian or Edwardian eyes (or http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/04/lorelei.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-7212118887375067346Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:43:00 +00002013-03-29T10:43:16.811-04:00I only just saw this, so apologies for the short notice! The Delaware Art Museum's Curator of American Art, Heather Campbell Coyle - who knows Howard Pyle inside and out - is giving a talk tonight at the Reading Public Museum. For more information, call 610-371-5850 x223. Reservations are required and the cost is $20 per member, $30 per non-member.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/03/howard-pyle-lecture-in-reading-pa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-319051312211282669Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:03:00 +00002013-03-13T11:03:38.091-04:00pirates19001890black and white “He lay silent and still, with his face half buried in the sand” (1890) Howard Pyle painted “He lay silent and still, with his face half buried in the sand” for his story “Blueskin the Pirate” in 1890, and it was first published in that year’s Christmas issue of The Northwestern Miller. About a decade later, when, it seems, Pyle was thinking of compiling his own proto-Book of Pirates (or at http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/03/blueskin-stands-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-7360070630266359216Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:41:00 +00002013-03-10T19:41:24.489-04:00Harper’s Monthly1905ModerncolorMediaevalJames Edmund DunningHarper’s Weekly1904Mrs. Henry DudeneyJames Branch CabellGertrude BrinckléWarwick DeepingI spent Friday in the Delaware Art Museum’s library and among the many things I looked at (again) were three enormous, leather-bound scrapbooks of Howard Pyle’s published work. Pyle and his secretary Gertrude Brincklé seem to have started compiling them in 1910. The first leaves of Volume I feature Pyle’s own handwritten comments about some of his earliest printed things. But then he either http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/03/pyle-used-to-do-that-to-his-paintings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-6700175989953732524Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:47:00 +00002013-03-09T07:47:04.922-05:00colorMediaeval1904 “Catherine de Vaucelles, in her garden” by Howard Pyle (1904) What do you think of this Howard Pyle painting? It’s not so bad, right? It’s hard to see in this off-register plate, but it’s got its strengths: the dress and the blossoms are handled nicely, the composition and color are interesting... Aren’t they? I’ve shown this one before. In The New York Times Saturday Review of Books for http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-late-catherine-de-vaucelles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8721499560223856415Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-03-05T20:00:09.025-05:00photographhttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/03/happy-160th-birthday-howard-pyle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3445738039678890290Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:42:00 +00002013-02-28T19:42:32.400-05:001898Anna W. Hoopescolor1899Drexel InstituteAngel DeCoraFrank SchoonoverChadds FordstudiophotographColonialAmerican historyHenry Cabot Lodge The above photograph, showing Howard Pyle with “The Evacuation of Charlestown” on his easel in his Wilmington studio, has now and then been dated 1897 and 1898. But 1897 is incorrect because Pyle only started the painting in mid-1898: Frank Schoonover remembered that Pyle (his teacher at the time) was working on it during the Drexel Institute’s first Summer School of Illustration - which http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/it-looks-very-much-posed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-7236406710489428608Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:11:00 +00002013-02-28T18:11:51.938-05:00Harper’s Monthly1878ModernEdwin Austin AbbeyMotherfamilyblack and whiteCharles Parsonsletters “The little pink finger and the huge black index came to a full stop under this commandment” “Work is beginning to roll in upon me at last, and at last I think I have ‘struck pan,’” wrote Howard Pyle to his mother on February 28, 1878 - 135 years ago today. “My work is beginning to pay better too and I think before long I shall be able to pay off my debts to father in toto.” Although I http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/when-howard-pyle-struck-pan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-6676422750621823729Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:25:00 +00002013-02-27T09:25:35.877-05:00On Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 11.30 a.m., I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Howard Pyle: From Idea to Illustration” at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington. You can register in advance for it here. http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/howard-pyle-from-idea-to-illustration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-5184793786861886981Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:04:00 +00002013-02-26T12:04:39.915-05:00Robin HoodCrisis Magazine recently featured an interesting review of - or, rather, an essay on - Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood as a kind of Christian parable. The devout Pyle probably would have approved of this interpretation. http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/gamboling-in-great-game-of-human.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-7785663473531399992Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:37:00 +00002013-02-02T08:37:52.048-05:001895“According to the tradition of the ‘ground-hog’ the weather should have broken by now, but this time the ‘ground-hog’ was a prophet neither in his own country nor out of it. We read that you also on the other side of the ocean are suffering a like bitter winter and, indeed, the whole earth seems to be girdled by a belt of ice. I suppose that we should take comfort that one is not worse off than http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/howard-pyle-and-groundhog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8590983484047841734Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:20:00 +00002013-01-06T20:20:46.282-05:001906inkFranklin Inn ClubColonialHoward Pyle drew “Poor Richard” for the programme/menu of the Franklin Inn Club’s celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 200th birthday held on January 6, 1906, in Philadelphia. Pyle was a member of the club, but did he attend the party? Maybe not: instead, he might have opted to go to the Century Association’s Twelfth Night at Eagleroost festivities in New York. http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/poor-richard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-3945656885865540640Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:37:00 +00002013-01-05T23:01:35.334-05:001905William Howard TaftfriendspoliticsTheodore RooseveltfoodOn January 5, 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pyle attended the Cabinet Dinner at the White House, where they dined on Harlequin Sandwiches, Potage Clear Green Turtle, Curled Celery, Terrapin à la Baltimore, Supreme of Chicken Villeroi with fresh mushrooms, Egyptian Quails à l'Estouffade - among other delicacies - and later stayed over night as guests of President Roosevelt. Also at the dinner was http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/pyle-taft-and-panama-canal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-2593397485490930403Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:51:00 +00002013-01-04T15:51:06.686-05:00videostudentsWilmingtonFrank SchoonoverteacherYes, yet another Pyle-related video to watch. Here, the story of Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972), one of Howard Pyle’s longest-lived and most devoted students, is told by his three grandchildren, who were interviewed in the Wilmington studio their grandfather used from 1906 on (after Pyle had pushed several “graduates” from his own nest of studios a few blocks away). Home movies and audio http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/frank-e-schoonover-long-life-in-art.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-1937235340590450451Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:44:00 +00002013-01-03T16:44:00.489-05:00videoAllen Tupper Truestudents Allen Tupper True Denver-born artist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955) joined Howard Pyle’s class in May 1902 and his abundant letters home are a rich source of information on Pyle and his students and their lives in and around Chadd’s Ford and Wilmington (they’re also a great complement to True’s classmate and studiomate N. C. Wyeth’s letters to his family). Now (and for some time past, perhapshttp://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-film-about-allen-tupper-true.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-8471472423291423197Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:14:00 +00002013-01-02T07:14:41.448-05:00Cass Gilbert1907friends Cass Gilbert, circa 1907 (via the Minnesota Historical Society) “Your own life has been a life of success gratifying to all your friends, and the gratification they feel is enhanced a hundred-fold by the consciousness that that success has been well earned by a man who deserves to possess it. For such large hearts and generous spirits as that which you possess not only make the world a http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-praise-of-cass-gilbert.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-6416191004326569400Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:36:00 +00002013-03-28T19:15:14.766-04:00Clyde Osmer Delandstudents18981897teacherDrexel Institute “Raising the First American Flag, January 1, 1776” by C. O. DeLand No, this isn’t a long-lost Howard Pyle: it’s by Clyde Osmer DeLand, who painted it under Pyle’s supervision at the Drexel Institute in the fall of 1897. As Pyle explained in a January 1898 description of his School of Illustration: ...I hold a “Composition Class” every week, some of the compositions submitted being of an http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/raising-first-national-flag-january-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-6609192457691331612Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +00002012-12-11T13:21:37.514-05:00Howard Pyle: American Master RediscoveredLast month, PCNTV aired an hour-long interview with Heather Campbell Coyle about Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered. And now you can watch it online. Ms. Coyle is Curator of American Art at the Delaware Art Museum and she knows and understands Pyle like few others do, so by all means watch this in-depth conversation.http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/12/an-interview-about-howard-pyle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-4873267518979746990Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:35:00 +00002012-12-11T08:35:42.205-05:00oilBenjamin Franklin1899ColonialAmerican history “The Good, Aged Doctor” by Howard Pyle (1899) “The Good, Aged Doctor” - or, more precisely, “The good, aged Doctor, the appearance of whose rotund figure on the streets was the signal for the Parisians to doff their hats” - was one of four illustrations Howard Pyle made for James Barnes’s “The Man for the Hour” in McClure’s Magazine for December 1899. Benjamin Franklin is, of course, “the http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-good-aged-doctor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-527225074425471119Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:33:00 +00002012-12-04T19:33:52.687-05:00studentsArt Institute of ChicagoHarvey DunnIndianapolisteacheron artN. C. Wyeth1903On December 4, 1903, Howard Pyle and his wife, Anne, traveled from Chicago to Indianapolis via the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway. They arrived at 2:40 p.m. and were met by Will David Howe, a professor of English at Butler College (and later an editor and publisher in New York). Howe had tried to get Pyle to come lecture there in 1902, but the ever-busy Pyle begged off, http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/12/ticket-to-pyle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-6172205992234410628Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:25:00 +00002012-11-23T18:25:08.423-05:0018801877Katharine Pylefamilybiography Today is the 149th birthday of Katharine Pyle, Howard Pyle’s sister. These two siblings seem to have had a conflicted relationship over the years: Howard (who was ten years older) often tried to encourage or push Katharine into a more “practical” career path, but she was too much of an independent spirit, who did things when and where and how she wanted to. At least that’s the sense one might http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-sad-story-of-little-boy-that-cried.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ian Schoenherr)0