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This First State VIP Series along Red Lion Road is dedicated to people who were truly VIPs in Delaware

Howard Pyle was a renowned artist, writer, and teacher. Known as one of America's best loved illustrators and founder of the Brandywine school of painting, Pyle had an enormous impact on the world of American illustration.

Pyle was a Quaker and attended the Friends' School in Wilmington. But, as Pyle himself later recalled, "he spent his time largely in scrawling drawings on his slate and in his books". Realizing their son's lack of interest in studying, the Pyle's gave up their idea of sending Howard to college and instead his mother encouraged him to study art. At sixteen he began three years of daily commutes to Philadelphia in order to study under the Belgian artist Van der Weilen. These classes would be the only systematic training in art that Pyle would receive and provided a solid foundation in the technique of drawing.

After 3 years of study, he setup a studio in Wilmington and helped his father in his leather business while beginning his fledgling career as an illustrator. His earliest work was published in Scribner's Monthly in 1876. He moved to New York, where he was associated to some extent with the Art Students' league of New York City during 1876-77. His early illustrations, short stories and poems appeared in the leading New York periodicals in 1876-79. He was a well known artist and writer for Harpers Weekly.

Pyle devoted his art work almost entirely to the production of illustrations which appeared in periodicals and books.

He is the author and illustrator of the following works: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Nottinghamshire (1883); Within the Capes (1885); Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk (1887); The Rose of Paradise (1887); The Wonder Clock or Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales (1888); Otto of the Silver Hand (1888); A Modern Aladdin (1891); Men of Iron, a Romance of Chivalry (1892); Jack Ballister's Fortune (1894); Twilight Land (1895); The Garden Behind the Moon (1895).

In 1910, Howard Pyle relocated his family to Florence, Italy where he hoped to study and pursue the painting of murals - drawing on the expertise of the Old World. It was his second trip abroad. In November of 1911, he suddenly became ill and died of a kidney infection at the age of 58. His ashes were interred there.

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