The illustrations of HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) are as exciting now as they were a hundred years ago, while pictures by many of his contemporaries today look dated and mannered. Several special... Read full biography
The illustrations of HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) are as exciting now as they were a hundred years ago, while pictures by many of his contemporaries today look dated and mannered. Several special qualities combined to make Pyle America's foremost illustrator. Pyle was interested in pictures, first of... Read full biography
The illustrations of HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) are as exciting now as they were a hundred years ago, while pictures by many of his contemporaries today look dated and mannered. Several special qualities combined to make Pyle America's foremost illustrator. Pyle was interested in pictures, first of all, as drama. As a young man his initial reaction to a theatrical performance had made a great impression on him and influenced his point of view from then on. In his illustrations, Pyle sought to... Read full biography
The illustrations of HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) are as exciting now as they were a hundred years ago, while pictures by many of his contemporaries today look dated and mannered. Several special qualities combined to make Pyle America's foremost illustrator. Pyle was interested in pictures, first of all, as drama. As a young man his initial reaction to a theatrical performance had made a great impression on him and influenced his point of view from then on. In his illustrations, Pyle sought to dramatize themes with universal appeal. The pictures portrayed basic human emotions: the ruthlessness of pirate greed, raw grief in the break-up of Lee's army after Appomattox, smug pride, humble petition. Pyle's concept of a picture was never trite. He... Read full biography
The illustrations of HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) are as exciting now as they were a hundred years ago, while pictures by many of his contemporaries today look dated and mannered. Several special qualities combined to make Pyle America's foremost illustrator. Pyle was interested in pictures, first of all, as drama. As a young man his initial reaction to a theatrical performance had made a great impression on him and influenced his point of view from then on. In his illustrations, Pyle sought to dramatize themes with universal appeal. The pictures portrayed basic human emotions: the ruthlessness of pirate greed, raw grief in the break-up of Lee's army after Appomattox, smug pride, humble petition. Pyle's concept of a picture was never trite. He deliberately looked for new ways to tell a story and involved himself in his subject so thoroughly that his pictu... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (85)
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Robert Lougheed Follow the Sun
2010
Hedgpeth, Don
360 pages (color)
JC Leyendecker American Imagist
2008
Cutler, Laurence S. & Judy Goffman Cutler & the National Museum of Illustration
256 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists
2004
Cutler, Laurence S, Judy Goffman Cutler & The National Museum of American Illustrators
448 pages (color)
Howard Pyle His Life-His Work
2004
Davis, Paul Preston
906 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love
2000
Carter, Alice A
21 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998
McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)
223 pages (color)
Advertising, Artists & the Borders of Art
1995
Bogart, Michelle H
427 pages
Masterpieces Best Loved Paintings from America's Museums
1995
Frankel, David
162 pages (color)
Frederic Remington & Turn of the Century America
1995
Nemerov, Alexander
244 pages (color)
Redefining Genre French and American Painting 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Weisberg, Gabriel P
111 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
The Golden Age Of Children's Book Illustration (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Dalby, Richard
143 pages (color)
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991
Howat, John K (foreward)
204 pages (color)
Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1991
University Gallery-Delaware
161 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Just Looking Essays on Art
1989
Updike, John
210 pages
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
Howard Pyle and the Wyeths Four Generations of American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Hyland, Douglas/Howard Brokaw
104 pages (color)
A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators
1983
Meyer, Susan E
272 pages (color)
Treasury of American Pen-and-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938
1982
Johnson, Fridolf
149 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Robert Robinson: American Illustrator
1981
Bowers, Q. David and Christine Bowers
96 pages (color)
The History of the Illustrated Book The Western Tradition
1981
Harthan, John
288 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
A Small School of Art: The Students of Howard Pyle
1980
Elzea, Rowland; E Hawkes
0 pages
Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection
1979
Broder, Patricia Janis
155 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
America's Great Illustrators
1978
Meyer, Susan E
311 pages (color)
Golden Age of American Illustration F R Gruger and His Circle
1978
Perlman, Bennard B
232 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914
1976
Coen, Rena Neumann
146 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marcus, George H. (Editor)
166 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
The Adventurous Decade Comic Strips in the Thirties
1975
Goulart, Ron
224 pages
American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum
1975
Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay)
182 pages (color)
Howard Pyle Writer, Illustrator, Founder Brandywine School
1975
Pitz, Henry C
248 pages (color)
Howard Pyle
1975
Pyle, Howard/Rowland Elzea
94 pages (color)
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
The Art of America in the Gilded Age
1974
Glubok, Shirley
49 pages
Howard Pyle Diversity in Depth (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Gregory, Jane Allen
82 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
Trail-Blazers of American Art
1971
Irwin, Grace
228 pages
The Brandywine Heritage: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth (Exhibition catalog)
1971
McLanathan, Richard (Introduction)
121 pages (color)
The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute
1971
Rossi, Paul/David Hunt
335 pages (color)
O! Say Can You See The Story of America through Great Paintings
1970
Ray, Frederick E
189 pages (color)
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
The Brandywine Tradition
1968
Pitz, Henry C
252 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966
Reed, Walt
272 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
A Short History of Painting in America
1963
Richardson, Edgar P
347 pages (color)
The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Hofer, Philip
232 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953
Taft, Robert
400 pages
American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists
1938
Bolton, Theodore
290 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One