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Howard Pyle | |
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| Born | March 5, 1853 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Died | November 9, 1911 (aged 58) |
| Known for | Illustration, writing for children |
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| Style | Brandywine School |
| Spouse | Anne Poole |
| Relatives | Katharine Pyle (sister) |
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Other works
- Otto of the Silver Hand, about the son of a robber baron during the medieval period.
- Rejected of Men: A Story of To-day (1903), setting the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth-century America.[1]
- Portfolio of Etchings: In 1903 the Bibliophile Society of Boston commissioned Pyle to create a series of paintings of scholars and bibliophiles for a limited, four-volume set of books titled The bibliomania, or book-madness.[2][3] The paintings proved popular and the Bibliophile Society commissioned American engraver W. H. W. Bicknell to create copper etched copies of Pyle's five oil paintings from The Bibliomania books. The etched prints in the Portfolio of Etchings portray the following literary figures:
- “Friar” Bacon in His Study
- Erasmus, Colet & More
- "Izaak" Walton
- Caxton at his press
- Richard de Bury tutoring young Edward III
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Richard de Bury and the Young Edward III -
Caxton at his Press -
Erasmus reading to Colet and More
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- ^ The title is from Isaiah 53:3 (KJV), "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
- ^ Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Cutter, W. P.; Garnett, Richard; Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.) (1903). The bibliomania, or book-madness; history, symptoms and cure of this fatal disease. Boston: The Bibliophile society.
- ^ "Etchings by W. H. W. Bicknell after Original Paintings by Howard Pyle by (Pyle, Howard); Bicknell, W. H. W.: Signed by Author(s) | Illustrators Bookcase". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- The Wonder Clock (1887), a collection of twenty-four tales, one for each hour of the day. Each tale was prefaced by a whimsical verse telling of traditional household goings-on at that hour. His sister Katharine Pyle wrote the verses. Pyle created the tales based on traditional European folktales.
- Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk, traditional tales for younger readers which he also illustrated.
- After his death, a publisher collected a number of his pirate stories and illustrations and published them as Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1921).
Further reading
[edit]- Coyle, Heather C. (2011). Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum. ISBN 9780977164431.
- Lykes, Richard W. (1956). "Howard Pyle Teacher of Illustration". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 80 (3), 339-370.
- May, Jill P.; Robert E. May; Howard Pyle (2011). Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art. University of Illinois Press. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-252-03626-2.
- Philadelphia Art Alliance (1923). Report of the private view of the exhibition of works by Howard Pyle, at the Art Alliance, Philadelphia, January 22, 1923. Printed for the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Ad-Service Print. Co. OCLC 34340261.
- Pitz, Henry C. (1975). Howard Pyle: Writer, Illustrator, Founder of the Brandywine School. C.N. Potter: Distributed by Crown Publishers, New York. OCLC 564465099
- Etext of Twilight Land
- Pyle biography and etext of Robin Hood