Howard Pyle

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Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and writer, mainly for young people.

He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. He began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in 1894 (now Drexel University).

He founded the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art in 1900, and he also founded his own school of art and illustration.

Scholar Henry C. Pitz later used the term Brandywine School to describe the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied with Pyle.

Ethel Franklin Betts, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Fitzgerald Betts, Ethel Hamilton Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Matthew Harlow, Arthur Thomas DeLand, Frederick Moses Aylward, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Charlotte Harding were among his most popular students, including N. C. Wyeth, Christopher Collins, Frank Schoonover, Ethel Bennett, Ethel Clarke Patrick Leach

Pyle taught his students at his Wilmington home and studio, which is still standing and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Robin Hood's 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is still in print, and his other books, including a four-volume set on King Arthur, have medieval European settings.

He is also known for his drawings of pirates, and he is credited with inventing what has now become the popular image of pirate dress. In 1888, he published his first book, Otto of the Silver Hand.

He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Magazine and St. Nicholas Magazine.

Men of Iron was based on the film The Black Shield of Falworth (1954). Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy, in 1910, to study mural painting.

He died as a result of a sudden kidney infection in 1911 (Bright's disease).

Life

Pyle was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and the son of William Pyle and Margaret Churchman Painter. He attended private schools and was interested in drawing and writing at a young age as an infant. He was an indifferent student, but his parents encouraged him to study art, particularly his mother. He worked at F. A.'s studio for three years. Van der Wielen, Philadelphia, and this constituted the bulk of his artistic education, excluding a few lessons at the Art Students League of New York.

He travelled to Chincoteague, Virginia, in 1876, and was inspired by what he saw. He wrote and illustrated an article about the island and submitted it to Scribner's Monthly. Roswell Smith, one of the magazine's founders, encouraged him to move to New York and pursue illustration professionally. Pyle started out in New York; his lack of expertise made it impossible for him to translate his ideas into published form. Nonetheless, several working artists, including Edwin Austin Abbey, A., had him encouraged, including Edwin Austin Abbey, A. B. Frost and Frederick S. Church.

In the Harper's Weekly issue of March 9, 1878, he finally published a double-page spread, earning him $75—five times more than he had expected. He became a well-known artist by the time he returned to Wilmington in 1880. Pyle continued to illustrate for magazines. He has worked on several books, one of which was a bestseller in American history. He wrote and illustrated his own stories, beginning with Robin Hood's The Merry Adventures of 1883. William Morris, a scholar of international interest, read this book. He published many more illustrated books for children over the past decade, some of which are still in print today.

Anne Poole, a local singer, married Anne Poole on April 12, 1881, and the couple had seven children. He and his wife sailed to Jamaica in 1889, leaving their children in the custody of relatives. Although they were on vacation, their sons died unexpectedly. This loss is most likely inspired his children's book The Garden Behind the Moon, which is about death and bears the words "To the little Boy in the Moon Garden" is dedicated by his father.

He taught illustration at the Drexel Institute from 1894 to 1900. In 1900, he opened his own academy in Wilmington, where he taught a small number of students in depth. Pyle painted his first murals for the Delaware Art Museum in 1903. In 1906, he began painting murals in Saint Paul, as well as two others for courthouses in New Jersey (the Essex and Hudson County Courthouses).

Pyle invented his own illustrations for illustrating pirate dress as few examples existed of authentic pirate outfits and no, if any, drawings had been retained. He created a flamboyant style that incorporated elements of Gypsy dress. His works inspired Errol Flynn's costume design for movie pirates from Errol Flynn to Johnny Depp. It has been described as impractical for working sailors.

Pyle and his family travelled to Italy in 1910 to study the old masters. He was depressed and depleted of electricity as a result of his poor health. He died in Florence at the age of 58 after one year in the country and died of a kidney disease.

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