Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972) was enamoured with Howard Pyle’s magazine work from the time he was a young boy in Trenton, New Jersey. After youthful endeavours copying Pyle’s illustrations, Schoonover joined his class at Drexel Institute in 1896. The young artist’s promising talent was duly noted by his teacher and he was offered scholarships to Pyle’s summer school in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Schoonover was well known for his illustrations of outdoor adventure stories, especially of the Canadian and American West. He maintained a studio in Wilmington throughout his career and, with Stanley Arthurs, was a founder in 1912 of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the predecessor of the Delaware Art Museum. The Frank E. Schoonover Manuscript Collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, organisational records, diaries, and day books that document the work he executed. Delaware Art Museum
For a more in-depth biography, and for earlier works by Schoonover, see part 1 also.
This is part 2 of 7-part series on the works of Frank Schoonover.
1903 The Blood Lilies by W.A. Fraser, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons:
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| They struggled and panted...in the swirling storm oil on canvas en grisaille 55.9 x 35.5 cm |
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| To Descoigne, lying in his shack, came Felix Benoit oil on canvas, en grisaille 55.9 x 35.5 cm |
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| Her wail was like that of a she-wolf oil on canvas 55.9 x 35.5 cm |
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| The Indian and the Scot gave lead to the hounds. oil in canvas, en grisaille 55.9 x 36.1 cm |
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| (Caption not found) oil on board, en grisaille 56.5 x 36 cm ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 1904 Skin hanging from Rack oil crayon on illustration board 26.6 x 17.7 cm Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA |
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| 1904 ‘Read yourself – this once,’ he pleaded, ‘and let me listen.’ oil on illustration board 60.9 x 40.6 cm |
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| In a massive Elizabethan chair of blackened oak a stately old lady was sitting straight and stiff oil on canvas 55.9 x 35.5 cm |
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| …waited for the oxen to reach the summit of the hill oil on canvas 45.7 x 30.4 cm |
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| …stood, bareheaded, gazing over the broad field. oil on canvas (size not given) |
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| The Inheritance ink on illustration board 17.7 x 19 cm |
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| 1905 "Hopalong Takes Command" The Fight at Buckskin, by Clarence Edward Mulford Outing Magazine, December 1905 50.8 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1905 “The Edge of the Wilderness.” Scribner’s Magazine, April 1905 A bit of domestic life oil crayon on paper 29.2 x 40.6 cm |
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| 1905 “The Edge of the Wilderness.” Scribner’s Magazine. April 1905 oil crayon on paper 43.8 x 28.5 cm |
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| 1905 “The Woman and the Poet.” Scribner’s Magazine, September 1905 The tragic hills looked down, watchful, impassive oil on canvas en grisaille 71.1 x 43.1 cm |
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| 1905 Breakfast Cocoa, Walter Backer & Co. oil on canvas 61 x 53.3 cm |
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| 1905 Only Jules Verbeaux oil on canvas 72.3 x 48.2 cm |
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| 1905 Scribner’s Magazine. Poster for the July 1903 issue " Came rushing with a huge noise through the wood." oil on canvas en grisaille 60.9 x 45.7 cm |
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| 1905-12 Man exiting shelter, four men gathered around him Half-tone plate engraved by H. Davidson Century magazine |
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| 1906 "Skinny dragged him over to a crack and settled down for another try" Bar-20 Yarns, The Outing Magazine oil on canvas 76.2 x 50.8 cm |
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| 1906 After the Fight oil on canvas 76.8 x 51.4 cm |
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| 1906 Got here on time oil on canvas 91.4 x 61 cm |
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| 1906 The Bridge Across the Night by Katherine Holland Scribner’s Magazine May 1906 oil 76.2 x 50.8 cm |
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| 1906 Two Trout pastel on paper 20.3 x 27.9 cm |
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| 1906 Wa Gush oil 91.4 x 121.9 cm |
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| c1906 "Hasse Spears a Mullet" gouache on board 20.3 x 13.3 cm Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford PA |
1906 The Outing Magazine (April-September):
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| "After the break-up of the ice on the Porcupine he paddled down that stream to where if effected its junction with the Yukon." |
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| "Hopalong blew another smoke ring. He was waiting for the gun to waver." |
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| "In the full glare of the afternoon light, crouching in the entrance to the cave, the cubs saw the lynx mother." |
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| "They can come and get me now." |
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| One of Three by Lawrence Mott "He got Lawsen on his powerful back with the cut leg stuck forward through the crook of his arm, and he started." |
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| The Law of the Range "Skinny dragged him over to a crack and settled down for another try." |
1906 White Fang novel by Jack London:
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| 1906 "White Fang's free nature flashed forth again, and he sank his teeth into the moccasined foot" oil on canvas 89.9 x 49.8 cm Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA |
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| Preparatory sketch for the above illustration ink on paper 9.5 x 7 cm |
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| 1906 Frontispiece "Circle of Fire" "They can come and get me now'" oil on canvas 91.4 x 60.9 cm --------------------------------------------------- |
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| 1907 Scribner's for February poster The New York Public Library Digital Collections |
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| 1907 Don Ramon in Bed - from The Eve of St. John by Thomas A. Janvier Harpers Magazine July 1907 |
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| 1907 "She took the oars and rowed me slowly around the shore" Illustration for "Some Remarks on Gulls by Henry van Dyke" Scribner’s Magazine, August 1907 oil on canvas 88.9 x 60.9 cm |
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| Front cover wrap-around |
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| 2. Frontispiece " I am going to take you from the island!" |
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| Frontispiece artwork charcoal and watercolour wash on off-white illustration board Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields |
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| Neil forced the dugout through the water. |
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| His fingers twined about the purplish throat. |
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1910 The Mystery of Rowing:
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| An Incident of the Atalanta-Yale Race of 1890 |
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| Near the Finish |
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| A Model in Schoonover’s studio |
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