Delaware Art Museum
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The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington
Exterior view
Mary Magdalene by Frederick Sandys, c. 1858–1860
Who shall be captain? a 1911 painting by Howard Pyle at the museum
Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal by Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1854
Howard Pyle
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Howard Pyle was an American illustrator, painter, and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
The Battle of Bunker Hill, Howard Pyle, 1897, showing the second British advance up Breed's Hill. This painting's whereabouts are unknown as it was probably stolen from the Delaware Art Museum in 2001.
The Battle of Nashville, c. 1906, Governor’s Reception Room at the Minnesota State Capitol
Sir Kay breaketh his sword at ye Tournament, one of Pyle's Arthurian illustrations