Pyle Students

Wyeth spent the summer of 1903  at the Chadds Ford summer school. After a trip to Colorado and New Mexico in the fall of 1904,

Eugenie Wireman was the illustrator of “Miss Philura’s Wedding Gown”, by Florence Kingsley, published about 1912.  She studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel in 1899.

Margaret F. Winner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 21, 1866.  She was a student atthe Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Studied with

Wilson be an his professional work in New York as a commercial illustrator. PuI Ush ers and editors quickly saw the quality of his advertisements

Williamson exhibited for many years at the Penns lvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at the Ogunquit Art Association. In ad J ition, she

Griswold Tyng was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1883 and graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art. He studied with Joseph Decamp and attended Howard

True’s favorite subjects for illustrations were Indians, cowboys, cavalry, and scenes typical of frontier life. Not only an illustrator but also a mural painter, exam

In 1917, Townsend, with seven other artists, was commissioned a captain with the American Expeditionary Force and assigned to record the war. His paintings and

Upon returning to the United States in 1910, Thrasher came to Wilmington to study with Pyle and for a time shared a studio at 1305

In a biographical sketch for the Saturday Evening Post, she made her respect for Howard Pyle’s teaching clear: He was an inspiring teacher The sincerity

Herbert D. Stitt was born in 1880 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and attended West Point before going to Paris to study art. It is not

Wuanita Smith described Pyle’s way of encouraging his students: It was his constant inspiration that made me improve rapidly in his class. Such as “Keep

She also studied with William M. Chase, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Wheaton College, Illinois, where she later became head of the

As an illustrator, Smith’s work appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal as well as Scribner’s and Harper’s Monthly. He seemed to specialize in rural subjects. 

In the spring of 1910 he moved to Wilmington to attend Pyle’s lectures and shared studios with Foster at 1108 and 1305 N. Franklin Street.

Sometime during 1908, the Kers returned to New York and were divorced. In 1910, Mary Sigsbee attended Howard Pyle’s lectures. One of her fellow students

While he was in Wilmington, Shrader played the cello in the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Later in his life, he abandoned illustration, became a landscape ainter,

Walter Russell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 19,1871. He studied at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Albert Munsell

Rush moved to New York City around 1900 to attend the Art Students League. There, she studied with John Henry Twachtman. She remained in New