Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every U. S. citizen under 40 who ever had a middle-class home or a children's library card knows the illustrations of Howard Pyle and N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth. Together they were and are the chief artistic pride of Wilmington, Del., and their abundant families and pupils continue to paint like fury. Last week a young Wyeth and a young Pyle again took first and second honors in the 24th annual triple-exhibition of Delaware Artists, Pupils of Howard Pyle and Members of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, held on the second floor of Wilmington...
History and adventure have never been the same since Howard Pyle put his hand to them. Born in 1853 of old Delaware stock, he heard from his great-grandmother eyewitness tales of the rout of the Continental Army at Brandywine. When he grew up, Howard Pyle found one of his studios in an old mill near the Pyle ancestral farmhouse on Brandywine Stream. A broad-shouldered, benevolent six-footer, he made his Revolutionary soldiers, pirates, merry men, knights and men-at-arms so nutbrown, brawny and handsome, steeped their adventures in such romantic color, that Theodore Roosevelt lustily approved, frequently...
...only an illustrator but a writer of children's books, Howard Pyle was followed in both fields by his accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
...first time in his twelve-year career, crumpled to the canvas to stay. Most notable fact about Champion Armstrong, who was able to finish high school by setting up pins in a St. Louis bowling alley and developed his sturdy legs by training for one of C. C. Pyle's "bunion derbies," is that he belongs to Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Singer Jolson whose great heart is a Broadway legend, bought his contract last year for $6,000 from a gun-toting promoter named Wirt ("One Shot") Ross, turned him over to be managed by his friend Eddie Meade...
Married. Caroline Ashton Pyle, niece of the late famed boys' Book Illustrator Howard Pyle; and Nathaniel Convers Wyeth, son of famed children's Book Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth; in New Castle...