Name: Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)
Brand: Nagushwa
Price: 13000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)
Nagushwa
signed and dated 'Frank E Schoonover/'22' (lower left)--dated again 'Dec. '22' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
33⅞ x 27⅞ in. (86 x 70.8 cm.)
Painted in 1922.

Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California.
Hammer Galleries, New York, acquired from the above, 1980.
Private collection, Midland, Michigan, acquired from the above, 1982.
Gift to the present owner from the above.

W.H. Miller, "Medicine Gold," The American Boy, vol. 17, July 1923, the original version illustrated (as "A Silent Human Figure was Kneeling...").
J.R. Schoonover, L.S. Smith, L. Dean, Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Castle, Delaware, 2009, p. 384, no. 1191alt, illustrated.

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The original version of the present work was published in The American Boy in 1923 as "A Silent Human Figure was Kneeling on the End of That Trunk." The artist altered the painting to its present composition at a later date.