Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911)

                                                                        

Joan of Arc

1863

Though his student, Maxfield Parrish, may be the best known American illustrator, Howard Pyle is probably the greatest. Actually, I prefer Parrish, who I'll be sure to feature soon, but it's Pyle's unbelievable  influence on the world's illustration scene that makes him so much more important than the strange and wonderful Parrish. 

 Sorrow

Guarded by Rough English Soldiers 

1904

Do you know an American magazine called Harper's Monthly? There are things in it which strike me dumb with admiration, including sketches of a Quaker town in the olden days by Howard Pyle.

- Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother, Theo

quoted in N.C. Wyeth: A Biography

Attack on a Galleon

1905