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Eye Candy for Today: Howard Pyle illustration for Mother Hildegarde
The Princess looks into that which she should not have done., from Mother Hildegarde, part of The Wonder Clock, a collection of new fairy tales with pen and ink illustration by Howard Pyle. I don’t know the size of location of the original (though I can hope it’s in the collection of the Brandywine River…
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Eye Candy for Today: luminous Howard Pyle painting
Why seek ye the living in a place of the dead?, Howard Pyle Source for this version of the image is Fleurdulys Tumblr (large image here); original is in the Kelly Collection of American Illustration Art. This was an illustration for the April 15, 1905 Easter themed issue of Colliers. Whether it accompanied a particular…
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Eye Candy for Today: three Howard Pyle drawings
Today marks the birthday of the great American painter, illustrator and master of pen and ink, Howard Pyle. These three drawings, illustrations for one of Pyle’s own books, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has high-resolution images of them. I’ve provided the titles and links to the images on the…
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Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered at NRM
Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, the excellent exhibition about the grand master of American illustration that was organized by the Delaware Art Museum and was on view there earlier this year, has moved to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where it will be on display until October 28, 2012. Unfortunately, the NRM apparently…
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Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered
In a letter to his brother Theo in 1882, Vincent van Gogh wrote: “Do you know an American periodical called Harper’s Monthly Magazine? – there are marvellous sketches in it. I don’t know it very well, I’ve only seen six months of it and have only 3 issues myself, but there are things in it…
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Howard Pyle and the American Renaissance
In 1876 the Centennial Exposition (officially the “International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine”) was held here in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 100 years earlier. It was the first major World’s Fair to be held in the United States and served as announcement of the…