"The Chase"   Lot no. 3451

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Signed 'Frank E. Schoonover' (lower right)--signed again, inscribed with title and dated 'Aug 1900' (on a label affixed to the reverse).

 

Literature:

E.T. Tomlinson, In the Hands of the Redcoats, Boston, Massachusetts, 1900, p. 84, illustrated.

R.G. Woodbridge, "Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover," The Princeton University Library Chronicle, November 1941, opp. p. 19, illustrated.

J.R. Schoonover, L.S. Smith, L. Dean, Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Castle, Delaware, 2009, p. 79, no. 8, illustrated.

 

Exhibited:

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, Exhibition at the Treasure Room, October-November 1941.

Wilmington, Delaware, The Delaware Art Museum, Frank E. Schoonover, October 5-October 28, 1962.

Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Savings Fund Society Exhibit Hall, The Centennial Exhibition--Frank E. Schoonover, July 11-July 29, 1977.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Community Gallery of Lancaster County, Frank Schoonover Exhibition, May 4-May 25, 1980.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Drexel University Museum, Frank Schoonover at Drexel: Illustration and the Academic Tradition 1892-1903, February 14-June 8, 1986.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Frank Earle Schoonover owed much to Howard Pyle’s belief that an illustrator should thoroughly immerse himself in his subjects, paintings those things he knows best. After studying with Pyle at the Drexel Institute, in Wilmington and at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Schoonover began to receive assignments to cover Indian and frontier subjects. In order to qualify himself properly, he made two trips to the Hudson Bay country, first in 1903 by snowshoe and dog team, and in 1911 by canoe, observing the life and customs of the Indians. Over the years he did a great number of excellent, authoritative illustrations based on these expeditions.

   Similarly, he made field trips to other locations, such as the Mississippi Bayou country for a book he both wrote and illustrated: Lafitte, the Pirate of the Gulf.

   Over his long and productive life, Schoonover illustrated for many magazines and books, designed stained glass windows, taught at the John Herron Art Institute and at his own studio, and painted many landscapes of the neighboring Brandywine and Delaware River valleys.