Image Gallery

We Started to Run Back to the Raft for Our Lives, 1902
For Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, "Sinbad on Burrator." Scribner’s Magazine, August 1902
Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1912
His Army Broke Up and Followed Him, Weeping and Sobbing, 1911
For A. R. H. Ranson, “General Lee as I Knew Him.”Harper’s Monthly Magazine, February 1911
Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 16 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Jessie Harrington, 1987
The Mermaid, 1910
Oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x 40 1/8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of the children of Howard Pyle in memory of their mother, Anne Poole Pyle, 1940
Genus of Literature, 1909
Oil on canvas glued to plywood, 65 1/2 x 111 1/2 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Louisa du Pont Copeland, 1923
Extorting Tribute from the Citizens, 1905
For Howard Pyle, “The Fate of a Treasure Town.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, December 1905
Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1912
At the Gate of the Castle, 1903
For Olivia H. Dunbar, “Piere Vidal, Troubadour.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, December 1903
Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1912
Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III, 1903
Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 20 1/8 inches
Jointly owned by the Delaware Art Museum (Louisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund and Gayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund) and the Brandywine River Museum (By purchase), 2006
Truth Leaves the Fairies’ Wonderland, 1900
For Erik Bøgh, “The Pilgrimage of Truth.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December 1900
Ink on paper, 7 9/16 x 5 1/16 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Gertrude Brincklé, 1973
“Behold it then!” Cried Perseus, 1900
For Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1900
Oil on panel, 21 x 10 3/4 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund and Partial Gift of Ann Logan, 2000
Peractum Est! 1897
For Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1897
Oil on canvas, 26 x 16 3/4 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Richard C. du Pont, 1965
The Punishment of Chilo, 1897
For Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1897
Oil on canvas, 25 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
Tailpiece, 1897
For Howard Pyle, “Love and Death.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, March 1897
Ink on illustration board, 3 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
The Rush from the New York Stock Exchange on September 18, 1873, 1895
For E. Benjamin Andrews, “A History of the Last Quarter Century.” Scribner’s Magazine, July 1895
Black and white oil on panel, 18 x 11 7/8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1915
He Was Standing at an Open Window, 1895
For Howard Pyle, The Garden behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon-Angel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895
Oil on board, 12 5/16 x 9 5/16 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1915
The Closed Door, 1894
For Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894
Oil on paste board, 12 1/4 x 8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
Poor Brother John Came Forward and Took the Boy’s Hand, 1888
For Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,1888
Ink on bristol board, 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1915
Untitled, 1881
For Howard Pyle, Yankee Doodle: An Old Friend in a New Dress. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1881
Watercolor on illustration board, 8 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Joseph Bancroft, 1942
Wreck in the Offing! 1878
For “‘Wreck in the Offing!’—Scene in a Life-Saving Station.” Harper’s Weekly, March 9, 1878
Gouache on paper, 14 3/4 x 21 1/8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1984
The Sailor Is Saved, 1877
For R. C. V. Meyers, “Papa Hoorn’s Tulip.” Scribner’s Monthly, January 1877
Ink on illustration board, 5 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
The Prince Kills the Dragon, 1888
For Howard Pyle, “The Princess on the Glass Hill.” Harper’s Young People, July 24, 1888
Ink on illustration board, 7 x 6 1/2 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of George Callery, 1963
The Swan Carries the Prince Away and Title with Illustrated Letter T, 1885
For Howard Pyle, “The Swan Maiden.” Harper’s Young People, October 13, 1885
Pen and Ink on bristol board, 9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Willard S. Morse, 1920