His niece had found him lying dead
Date1900
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"A Life for a Life," by Howard Pyle, in Scribner's Magazine, January 1900
MediumBlack and white oil on illustration board
Dimensions18 x 11 7/8 in. (45.7 x 30.2 cm)
frame: 22 × 16 in. (55.9 × 40.6 cm)
frame: 22 × 16 in. (55.9 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1915
Object number1915-29
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextPyle's somber short story relates the bleak lives of residents in a small Atlantic coastal town. Under cover of darkness, a drunken ship's captain Abe Lynch kills a man. The next day his horrified niece finds the body.
