Frank Schoonover - part 7

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 see part 1, and for earlier works by Schoonover, see parts 1 - 6 also. 

This is part 7 of 7-part series on the works of Frank Schoonover.

1929 King of the Castle
 American Boy Magazine, January 1929
oil 66 x 88.9 cm

1929 Red Book magazine
"Radisson sprang forward and smashed his clubbed rifle against the dazed Antler Hare. The other two bucks, trapped, fought like cornered animals. But Harl was upon them."
oil on canvas 62,2 x 116.8 cm

1929 Red Book magazine detail

1929 Red Book magazine detail

1929 The American Boy, March issue
"African Adventure - "The Builder of the Dam" by William Heyliger

1929 The Popular Magazine, February 20 issue

1929 Barbary Bo by Reginald Wright Kauffman
hard cover dust jacket

1929 Barbary Bo by Reginald Wright Kauffman
hard cover

1929 Barbary Bo by Reginald Wright Kauffman

1929 Barbary Bo by Reginald Wright Kauffman

1929 Barbary Bo by Reginald Wright Kauffman

1930 "The Rustlers of Silver River"
story illustration for Country Gentleman
oil on canvas 109.2 x 58.4 cm

1930 "Wolf Pass"
Red Book Magazine May 1930
oil on canvas 58.4 x 121.9 cm

1930 The Populay Magazine, 2 April issue

1930 Western village
oil on canvas 68.6 x 48.3 cm

1931 A Northern Mist
oil on canvas 76.2 x 91.4 cm
© The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies / Norman Rockwell Museum. All Rights Reserved

1931 The Scarlet Cockerel
oil on canvas laid on panel 76.2 x 53.3 cm

1931 Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters by Rupert Sargent Holland:

Hard Cover

1932 King Arthur by Henry Frith, Garden City Publishing:

King Arthur, front cover

King Arthur "Galahad Kneeled: 

King Arthur "Merlin"

1933 The Crimson Cutlass by Russell Gordon Carter
"The Sloop dropped anchor near the upper end of the harbour"
oil on canvas 76.2 x 53.3 cm

1934 Hide Rack
oil on canvas 101.6 x 61 cm

1934 Native with Ruck Sack
charcoal and wash 39.3 x 31.7 cm

1937 "The Barque Flirtmore"
The Country Gentleman magazine
oil on canvas 81.3 x 91.4 cm

1938 The Country Gentleman magazine
August issue cover

1941 The first flag raising
 oil on canvas 83.8 x 104.1 cm

1944 Bushkill - a pond in summer
oil on canvas 71.4 x 81.6 cm

1950 As the canoe swept by
oil on canvas 71.1 x 116.8 cm