Howard Pyle
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Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911)

Howard Pyle
Born in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 12 Apr 1881 [location unknown]
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Died at age 58 in Florence, Italymap
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American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.
Joan of Arc, 1863

Howard Pyle is born March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. He is a son of William Pyle and Margaret Churchman.[1][2]

As a child, he attends private schools and is interested in drawing and writing from a very young age. He studies for three years at the studio of F. A. Van der Wielen in Philadelphia.

Pyle moves to New York and initially struggles; his lack of professional experience makes it difficult for him to translate his ideas into forms for publication.

The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque Fellow, 1905

He finally publishes a double-paged spread in the Harper's Weekly issue of March 9, 1878 and was paid $75. He becomes increasingly successful and is an established artist by the time he returns to Wilmington in 1880. Pyle continues illustrating for magazines. He also collaborates on several books. He writes and illustrates his own stories, beginning with The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood in 1883. This book won international attention.

Pyle marries singer Anne Poole on April 12, 1881, and the couple has seven children.[3][4]

His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur. He is also well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating what has become the modern stereotype of pirate dress. He publishes his first novel, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was adapted as the movie The Black Shield of Falworth (1954).

The Mermaid, 1910

In 1889, he and his wife sail to Jamaica, leaving their children in the care of relatives. While they are overseas, their son Sellers died unexpectedly.

In 1894 he begins teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University). After 1900, he founds his own school of art and illustration, naming it the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art.

Pyle travels to Florence, Italy in 1910 to study mural painting.

Suffering poor health, he feels depressed and drained of energy. After one year in the country, he suffers a kidney infection and dies on November 9, 1911 in Florence, Italy. He is buried at Cimitero Accatolico in Florence, Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Toscana, Italy.[5]


Sources

  1. United States Census, 1870, Howard Pyle in entry for William Pyle, 1870; Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States.
  2. United States Census, 1880, Howard Pyle in household of William Pyle, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States; citing enumeration district ED 12, sheet 280A.
  3. United States Census, 1900, Haward Pyle, Birmingham Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 140, sheet 3A, family 49.
  4. United States Census, 1910, Howard Pyle, Wilmington Ward 7, New Castle, Delaware, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 43, sheet 10B, family 230.
  5. Find A Grave, memorial page for Howard Pyle (5 Mar 1853–9 Nov 1911), Find a Grave Memorial no. 11367072, citing Cimitero Accatolico, Florence, Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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