Lot 139
  • 139

Frank Earle Schoonover

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Frank Earle Schoonover
  • He Turned to His Brother, "You Will Have to Take Her", He Said
  • signed F. Schoonover and dated '14 (upper right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 by 34 inches
  • (63.5 by 86.5 cm)

Provenance

Lagakos-Turack Gallery, Philadelphia, 1989
Private Collection, Youngstown, Ohio
Sale:  Christie's, New York, March 14, 1991, lot 120
Sale:  Illustration House, New York, May 30, 2009, lot 46
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Knoxville Museum of Art, Distant Lands, the Art of the Story, Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 1894-1938, 2001, no. 39

Literature

W.D. Steele, "Heritage:  A Story", Harper's Magazine, July, 1915, opposite p. 308
Richard J. Kelly and Chris Fauver, Art of the Ilustrator:  Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, Washington DC, 1997, p. 19
John Schoonover, et al., Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné, New Castle, Delaware, 2009, Volume 1, p. 240, no. 649

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: several scattered spots/dashes of inpaint throughout
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