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Howard Pyle
[American Golden Age Illustrator, 1853-1911]
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Do you know an American magazine called Harper's Monthly? There are things in it which strike me dumb with admiration, including sketches of a Quaker town in the olden days by Howard Pyle.
| - Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother, Theo quoted in N.C. Wyeth: A Biography |
Howard Pyle Works Online
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Original works by Howard Pyle available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Brandywine River Museum, Pennsylvania
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Marooned The Mermaid
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! Woman on the Shore, 1880
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Howard Pyle at The Art Renewal Center
Howard Pyle at The Athenaeum 7 works online by Pyle
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Howard Pyle at ArtMagick
California State University WorldImages Database
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
American Art Archives
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project Otto of the Silver Hand, by Howard Pyle
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project Pepper & Salt, by Howard Pyle
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project The Story of Sir Launcelot and his Companions, by Howard Pyle
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project The Wonder Clock, by Howard Pyle
FBI Art Theft Program The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Camelot Project Arthurian illustrations
The Internet Sacred Text Archive Complete reproduction of The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (Click "List of Illustrations" for quick access to Pyle's art)
University of Virginia Digital Collections The full text of Men of Iron, with Pyle's illustrations
University of Virginia Digital Collections The full text of The Wonder Clock, with Pyle's illustrations and decoration reproduced in extremely high quality. Amazing.
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Howard Pyle Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Mary Dyer Being Led to The Scaffold, ca.1905
Bud Plant Illustrated Books Biography with sample images
Resource Library Magazine
Spartacus Educational Books
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
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Men of Iron
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The Garden Behind The Moon
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The Book of Pirates
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Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
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