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

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not be impeded by the thousand little inconveniences of a
boarding-house. Accordingly, in conjunction with two other
young men, Durand and LeGendre, he rented a regular
studio which was more conveniently located than the Fortyeighth Street room. Here he worked on picture after
picture, gradually building up a method of attack which was
entirely his own. His ideas were good and he had plenty
of them..Mr. Charles Parsons, the art editor for Harper &
Brothers, had gathered around him and trained a mos~t remarkable group of young illustrators, among whom were
Abbey, Frost, and Reinhart, and with these young men he
was building up the pictorial side of his magazines to a
point which had never before been reached in this country.
To him Howard would take his sketches, and since the ideas
were very often good, Mr. Parsons would accept them, but
since in his opinion the technical work did not come up to
the standard, he would have one of his staff artists redraw
the picture on wood. This was, of course, very humiliating
to the young man whose fertile brain had devised the idea.
His friend Church, the man who was later to do some of
the charming pictures for Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle
Remues, was continually saying that it was poor policy to
drag other people's trains in the way in which young Pyle
was doing. The matter rankled, and finally he aroused
sufficient courage to ask Mr. Parsons for a chance to try his
own hand at it. He tells the story himself:
"I took one day to Harper's an idea sketch which I had
called 'A Wreck in the Offing.' It represented an alarm
brought into the Life Saving, Station, a man bursting open
the door, with the cold rain and snow rushing in after him,
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