Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

SCHOOLS AND THEORIES OF ART
To W. M. R. French of the Chicago Art Institute.
"September 28, 1903..1 believe I wrote you that I was invited by Yale
University to deliver their annual address to the Art School
last June. The subj ect which I chose was entitled 'The
Art of the Age,' and I endeavored in this to explain my
understanding of the difference between the Art of the past
and the Art that is demanded by the present age. I somehow felt that my ideas were not altogether pleasing to the
University people, for they were very radical and I stated
very clearly and concisely my opinion that our age and our
times require an art that, if not distinctly different from
the Art of the past, is, at least, an adaptation and completion
of the art of the past to fit our present needs....
To W. M. R. French.
"April 10, 1905.
I am very much interested in art education, and
my ideas upon that subject are an evolution of ten years,
in which I have not followed academic instruction and in
which I have endeavored to alter and amend my art instruction so as to fit it to the needs of the young American artist
as I have known him.
"My opinion is that art education in this country does
not fit the needs of the case, and my connection with art
education in New York during the past year confirms me
still more strongly in my views. Nor do I believe that art
education abroad affords a solution of the question of technical training to the young artist. I think that the young artist
is overshadowed by the technical accumulation of foreign
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