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Pyle murals on display at Delaware Art Museum

Delaware Art Museum
Flowering Tree , 1903-1905. Howard Pyle

For the first time in 75 years, the Delaware Art Museum is displaying a full set of wall sized murals by Howard Pyle.

Pyle began work on the murals in 1903 and his interest in mural painting mirrored a national trend at the time. Within a few years he would devote his work entirely to mural painting, traveling to Florence to study Renaissance examples. The nine wall-sized panels on display at the Museum represent Pyle’s earliest attempts in the genre.

 

While two of the panels were on view during the museum’s 100th anniversary in 2011-2012, the complete set has recently undergone conservation work.  No pictures exist of the original installation in Pyle's home but the new display is designed to suggest a turn-of-the-century interior.

The Delaware Art Museum was originally founded in 1912 to preserve and exhibit the art of Howard Pyle following his death in November 1911.

 

This piece is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

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