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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
If we look at art over the course of time, we see an intricate web of the influences of one artist on another; influences that, in their crossings and re-crossings, eventually weave the tapestry of styles that we call art history. Howard Pyle, who is Read More …