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

HOWARD PYLE: A CHRONICLE
given with the object of teaching young artists to make book
illustrations. 1 am aware that my own work has been very
largely identified with that art-first, because I am very
fond of that particular channel of work; secondly, because
I think that a wider impression can be made upon the world
of American Art through book illustrations than through
any other medium; and thirdly, because book and magazine
illustrations are very remunerative, and in the peculiar circumstances of my life I have been obliged to consider that
phase of the subject. My purposes, however, have, I believe, a much wider scope than that, for it seems to me
that the great art of the world is constructed upon a line
almost identical with that of book and magazine illustration,
more especially now that the color processes are becoming
more and more perfect. For if we substitute a small flat
decorated space for a very large flat decorated space there
is not such a vast difference between the best book illustration and a mural painting.
"My objective, however, in teaching my pupils is that
they should be fitted for any kind of art, whether of easel
painting or even the minor uses of portrait painting. But
I deem it advisable that they should put it to the test what
their degree of excellence really is, not by the method of
school competition, but by the broader and larger means of
a public decision in the pages of a magazine. This is a
very much larger jury, I hold, than a jury of teachers 'in
an art school and the result has been that my pupils soon
find their level-that some of them linger in the paths of
illustrative work because they like it, and that others drift
into other channels of work because they prefer those.
"Among my. older pupils, for instance, are Miss Violet
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