by The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Del., was founded in 1912 and has a collection of more than 12,000 objects. It was founded in honor of famed illustrator and artist Howard Pyle, and contains many works by Pyle and students of Pyle, along with a manuscript collection of Pyle’s correspondence, lectures, photographs, etc.
The museum also contains a 9-acre sculpture garden, along with a labyrinth built inside a former reservoir; featured above is Dale Chihuly’s Persian Window.
Portrait of the Artists’s Wife, Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield by Edwin Howland Blashfield, 1889.
The illustration was made by the artist, which was then engraved to a metal plate to be used for printing in a book or magazine.
This is printing block for Walking the Plank by Howard Pyle was published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1887 for the story Buccaneers and the Marooners of the Spanish Main.
Cover and Frontpiece of Mary Mapes Dodge’s book Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Frank Earle Schoonover, 1924.
Schoonover was a student of Pyle.
I’m pretty sure Doug took a picture of this Andrew Loomis illustration “Nora, he said huskily,” solely based on its title.
It accompanied Parents Permitting by Anne Wormers in the Ladies’ Home Journal in 1940.
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