Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . r of the Nineteenth Centuryand the first decade of the Twentieth belongsthe busy career of Howard Pyle, the onlyDelawarean to win wide public recognition athome and abroad as both illustrator and the former art he ranks with the scant halfdozen masters, and very high at that, whomAmerica has produced. Death came to him fartoo early, when he was still growing, with thepromise of greater work in both arts thanhis best accomplished. Pyle was an oddblend of Quaker mysticism, pratical busi-ness instinc
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . r of the Nineteenth Centuryand the first decade of the Twentieth belongsthe busy career of Howard Pyle, the onlyDelawarean to win wide public recognition athome and abroad as both illustrator and the former art he ranks with the scant halfdozen masters, and very high at that, whomAmerica has produced. Death came to him fartoo early, when he was still growing, with thepromise of greater work in both arts thanhis best accomplished. Pyle was an oddblend of Quaker mysticism, pratical busi-ness instinct as applied to his dealings withpublishers, and a taste for comfort and evenluxury of living, without cheap display. He wasa tireless worker, and he inexorably demandedtireless work of the pupils at the school of artand illustrative design that he founded atWilmington, a school out of which has grownthe, citys notable group of illustrators andpainters. His sensitive face, ripened withyears into an expression of illumined benevo-lence, his amply tall, broad and well made figure, 168. P^i %^%%%^^s^ ••.v!5 m ill jUi m itj Ml 111 niiinm i:j IlIJ ,lij |M ita ,»J f J m ,im m m CJ IJ IJ LJ 91 ifj ij ij nj sj I ] fff BU S J iJ Ll IJ tj?J HJ rj f J B| Wi ?J I J IJ SW IJ Wi tu »J I J K!« r J mat I Ml H .I KJ B J j^ »j a I rj a J lj Bj f J aj r J tja J ifj f_j « J c J t:jB J BLJ 14 »J Bl i-j 14 «j| 14^ UJ KOI »J f_J i(j(| i-4| «J ?» <M ;-ii ajji M ?» »-i «i* «B( «(Jf«_( so* I_4 Ml «* ^11/? tU ,KI lUM KU KU 14^ ,ui JKi iKsj ?? K4 qr r j?4 «l L-l UfJ ?J ail ?! wi !-i VI SI «f| HI ._» BflI m «i ^ itri Ji
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