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 - 5 also.
This is part 6 of 7-part series on the works of Frank Schoonover.
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| 1923 Everybodys magazine September issue |
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| 1923 American Boy, July issue Privateers of '76 - A Story of the Revolution |
1923 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott:
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| Front Cover |
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| Cedric the Saxon oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| Fight between Ivanhoe and Templar oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| Gurth, the son of Beowulph, and Wamba, Son of Witless oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| Isaac of York and Rebecca oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| King Richard and Ivanhoe at Coningsburg oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| The Parapet of Torquilstone oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| The Friar and the Knight oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| Sir Reginald Fond-deBeouf and De Bracy at the window oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| Locksley shoots before Prince John oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| Lady Rowena a Prisoner in the Castle of Torquilstone oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
1923 The Flamingo Feather, published by Harper & Brothers, New York:
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| Front Cover |
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| Réné took the feather and waved it above his head oil on canvas 91.4 x 73.6 cm |
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| Title Page |
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| Watching the flamingos |
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| René in the hands of his enemies oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1924 American Boy, April issue "Plumed Snake Medicine" |
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| 1924 Plumed Smoke Medicine oil on canvas 76.2 x 91.4 cm |
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| 1924 Heidi, dust jacket illustration published by Harper and Brothers 1924 oil 91.4 x 71.1 cm |
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| 1924 Approaching camp oil on canvas 78.7 x 63.5 cm |
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| 1925 Colt Revolvers & Automatic Pistols lithographic poster on textured wove paper 82.2 x 47 cm |
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| 1925 Poling up rapids, from Land of His Fathers Scribner’s Magazine, June 1919 "Again at his signal the crew thrust the boat forward" |
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| 1925 Rejoined Blackener: "Well, there's your written orders" oil on linen 66 x 91 cm |
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| 1925 Snowstorm at Poor Folks Haven oil on canvas 66 x 96.5 cm |
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| 1925 American Boy, March issue |
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| 1925 Trappers with rifles oil on canvas (size not given) |
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| 1926 "The faraway stretch of land a man was plowing – Mort rode forth boldly toward the sod house" The Country Gentleman magazine oil on canvas66 x 91.4 cm Delaware Art Museum |
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| 1926 Colt's The Arm of Law and Order "Tex & Patches" artwork 83.8 x 71.1 cm |
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| 1926 Colt's The Arm of Law and Order poster 82.5 x 49.5 cm |
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| 1926 No longer was Guthrie a city of tents oil on canvas 76.2 x 96.5 cm |
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| 1926 American Boy, January issue "Renfrew of the Mounted" |
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| 1926 The Popular Magazine, November 7 issue |
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| 1927 Aesop's Fables front cover Blue Ribbon Books/ Harper & Brothers, New York & London 1927 |
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| 1927 The American Boy, August issue "Red Crow's Brother" |
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| 1927 The American Boy, September issue |
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| 1927 The Country Gentleman, February issue |
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| 1927 "The round-up was a long task, owing to the wild timberland and rough canyons where the cattle ranged" oil on canvas 71.4 x 96.5 cm |
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| 1928 "Santa Claus in a hot air balloon" The Popular Magazine cover December 7 1928 oil on canvas 76.2 x 66 cm |
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| 1928 Masterman Ready, published by Harper and Brothers cover illustration oil on canvas 91.4 x 72 cm |
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| 1928 The American Boy, February issue This Scene Is From "Barbary Bo," Beginning in This Issue |
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| 1928 The Popular Magazine, December 7 issue |
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| 1928-31 The Swiss Family Robinson The Flamingo Trail "Fritz Striding with Flamingo" oil on canvas 91.4 x 71.1 cm |
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| 1928-31 The Swiss Family Robinson The Flamingo Trail "A dugout canoe in the Florida Everglades" oil on canvas (size not given) |
