Details
Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)
The Chase
signed 'Frank E. Schoonover' (lower right)--signed again, inscribed with title and dated 'Aug 1900' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
oil en grisaille on board laid down on board
13 ½ x 9 in. (34.3 x 22.0 cm.), image; 16 x 11 7/8 in. (40.6 x 30.2 cm.), overall
Painted in 1900.
Provenance
Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, circa 1985.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
E.T. Tomlinson, In the Hands of the Redcoats, Boston, Massachusetts, 1900, p. 84, illustrated.
R.G. Woodbridge, "Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover," The Princeton University Library Chronicle, November 1941, opp. p. 19, illustrated.
J.R. Schoonover, L.S. Smith, L. Dean, Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Castle, Delaware, 2009, p. 79, no. 8, illustrated.
Exhibited
Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, Exhibition at the Treasure Room, October-November 1941.
Wilmington, Delaware, The Delaware Art Museum, Frank E. Schoonover, October 5-October 28, 1962.
Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Savings Fund Society Exhibit Hall, The Centennial Exhibition--Frank E. Schoonover, July 11-July 29, 1977.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Community Gallery of Lancaster County, Frank Schoonover Exhibition, May 4-May 25, 1980.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Drexel University Museum, Frank Schoonover at Drexel: Illustration and the Academic Tradition 1892-1903, February 14-June 8, 1986.
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