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Howard Pyle

[American Golden Age Illustrator, 1853-1911]

• Relationships: Originator of the "Brandywine School" of illustration.
Many students, including N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Frank Schoonover.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Children's Books.
• Browse all:  American artists  /  illustrators

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

 


 
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Original works by Howard Pyle available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
9 works by Howard Pyle

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Vintage posters from the collection

Brandywine River Museum, Pennsylvania

Delaware Art Museum

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the TITLE to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island

Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
Woman on the Shore, 1880

Smithsonian Institution 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)

 
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Howard Pyle in the Art Renewal Center

Howard Pyle at The Athenaeum  
6 works online by Pyle

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Howard Pyle at ArtMagick

Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
Attack on a Galleon, 1905
The Nation Makers, 1906

California State University WorldImages Database  

Humanities Web  

 
Other Web Sites:
American Art Archives

FBI Art Theft Program
The Battle of Bunker Hill

Richard Garrison's Art of the Fantastic
Selection of illustrated book covers

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:
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 75-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

Bud Plant Illustrated Books
Biography with sample images

Resource Library Magazine

Spartacus Educational Books

  
Howard Pyle: Marooned Pirate





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Pirates Attacking a Spanish Galleon
Pirates Attacking a Spanish Galleon

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