Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for youthful people. He was a original of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his enthusiasm in Florence, Italy.
In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University). After 1900, he founded his own university of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. Scholar Henry C. Pitz innovative used the term Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth intimates artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied following Pyle. He had a lasting influence upon a number of artists who became notable in their own right; N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Thornton Oakley, Allen Tupper True, Stanley Arthur, and numerous others studied below him.
His 1883 eternal publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books frequently have medieval European settings, including 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 enlightened stereotype of pirate dress. He published his first novel Otto of the Silver Hand in 1888. He plus illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper’s Magazine and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was adapted as the movie The Black Shield of Falworth (1954).
Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy in 1910 to breakdown mural painting. He died there in 1911 of a rushed kidney infection (Bright’s disease).
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