Tag: Howard Pyle

Pyle’s image is rather sparse, between the snow and the cloudy sky he leaves the viewer’s eye to latch onto the people and the wolf. Your eye falls upon the people in the front, and the mix of fear and of the unknown is very strong here. Pyle creates his people, the landscape and even…

In his painting The Shell, Howard Pyle depicts the caves dug into a hillside as bomb shelters by families in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the city’s Civil War siege. The great danger of these cave is described in detail in a first-hand account by William W. Lord, Jr. in “A Child at the Siege of Vicksburg,”…