"I'm Going to be Married, Ladies' Home Journal Illustration"   Lot no. 3610

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Magazine story illustration for "After All I've Done" by William M. John for the Ladies' Home Journal, published September 1930, page 36.

 

This story, narrated by Uncle Asy Mulberry, a philosophical old man in Prohibition-era Tumbleweed Valley, Colorado, recounts the tale of Garnet Hamilton. Orphaned at age five, Garnet is taken in by Mrs. Sackett. Mrs. Sackett is a stern, self-righteous woman who constantly bemoans the burden of raising Garnet, overworking her and neglecting her education. Despite these hardships, Garnet blossoms into a beautiful and earnest young woman. 

 

One summer, Garnet encounters Bob Montgomery, a "tall, rangy young fellow" from Texas. Bob earns Garnet's admiration when he intervenes after a drunken man insults her. Bob buys a local farm and develops a growing interest in Garnet. Their secret meetings, including a kiss at a church social, are discovered by Mrs. Sackett, who furiously threatens to banish Garnet if she ever sees Bob again. Later, Bob is wrongfully accused of a crime, but Garnet firmly believes in his innocence.

 

The illustrated scene depicts Uncle Asy encountering Garnet on the road. She's determined to elope with Bob, having left Mrs. Sackett's home. Uncle Asy offers her a ride to Bob's place. He describes Garnet as dressed in ill-fitting, old clothes and carrying a makeshift suitcase: "They'd been her mother's clothes, I reckon. She was carryin' an old telescope tied with binder twine." Frank Schoonover shows Garnet dressed in a long black skirt that drags on the ground, a green velvet jacket with large sleeves, and a small black hat adorned with a large red rose pinned on a wire at the front.

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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.