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Howard Pyle

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Howard Pyle


Born
in Wilmington, Delaware, The United States
March 05, 1853

Died
November 09, 1911

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Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.

During 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz. Some of his more famous students were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Philip R. Goodwin, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tupper True, and Jessie Willcox Smith.

His 1883 classic
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Men of Iron

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Otto of the Silver Hand

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The Story of the Champions ...

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The Book of Pirates

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“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.”
Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.”
Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”
Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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April 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Villette by Charlotte Brontë 1853, 573 pages
 
  60 votes, 20.1%

 
  42 votes, 14.1%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages
 
  37 votes, 12.4%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 1842, 512 pages
 
  31 votes, 10.4%

 
  28 votes, 9.4%

 
  27 votes, 9.1%

 
  26 votes, 8.7%

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853, 432 pages
 
  20 votes, 6.7%

 
  11 votes, 3.7%

 
  10 votes, 3.4%

 
  6 votes, 2.0%

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