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 – 3 also.
This is part 4 of 7-part series on the works of Frank Schoonover.
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1916 A Northern Mist
oil on canvas 79 x 92.1 cm |
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1916 Abe Catherson pursues Masten across the desert
illustration for “The Range Boss” by by Charles Alden Seltzer
oil on canvas 91.4 x 68.5 cm
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1916 The New Freedom
oil on canvas 95.3 x 44.5 cm |
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1916 The Water Lily – Sketch
oil on canvas 53.3 x 48.6 cm
© 2023 The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies / Norman Rockwell Museum
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1917 “Will you tell her he’s Alright”
oil on canvas 63.5 x 91.4 cm |
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I turned to meet the charge of the infuriated
bull ape
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| “I sought out Dejah Thoris in the throng of departing chariots” |
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| “She drew upon the marble floor the first map of the Barsoomian territory I had ever seen” |
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| “The old man sat and talked with me for hours” |
1917 With Cortes the Coqueror by Virgnia Watson
The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia:
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| Contents |
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| “Their eyes glistened” |
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| Statue of God |
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Ahuitzohl and the Ocelot
original artwork
oil on canvas 91.4 x 68.5 cm |
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| Fierce Rushes |
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| Take and eat |
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| He was not spared |
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| Montezuma |
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1917 Pickerel
oil on canvas 86.3 x 60.9 cm |
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1918 Return of the Ancient Otter
oil on canvas 96.5 x 68.6 cm |
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1918 Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
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1918 Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
oil on canvas 91.4 x 71.1 cm |
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1918 The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
published 1920 by Grosset & Dunlap, New York |
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1918 The Gods of Mars
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1919 Joan of Arc the Warrior by Lucy Foster Madison
The Penn Publishing Company. Philadelphia:
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Frontispiece
The Warrior Maid |
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| The Gooseberry Spring |
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| Often they appeared in the little garden |
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| “The holy man has been to Rome” |
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| Far into the night they rode |
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| There was no smile on his face |
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| “France and St. Denys!” |
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| “Forward! They are ours!” |
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1919 Deep Water Days by Oliver G. Swan
published by Macrae Smith Co. |
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1919 Poling up Rapids from “The Land of His Fathers.”
Scribner’s Magazine, June 1919 |
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1919 The Deerstalker, from “The Warring Tribes,”
American Boy Magazine, January 1920
oil on canvas 99.7 x 76.2 cm |
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1920 He turned on them and told them to sit
oil on canvas 58.4 x 101.6 cm |
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1920 He turned on them and told them to sit
detail |
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1920 He turned on them and told them to sit
detail |
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1920 Robinson Crusoe illustration for dust jacket
published by Harper & Brothers, New York
oil on canvas 91.4 x 63.5 cm |
