
Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
"Woefully Exhausted as He Was - His Brain Was Clear"
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20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Frank Earle Schoonover
1877 - 1972
"Woefully Exhausted as He Was - His Brain Was Clear"
signed FE Schoonover, dated '28 and dedicated To Laura Cecilia Hackett (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 ¼ by 38 ¼ in.
71.8 by 97.2 cm.
Executed in 1928.
This work is recorded as no. 1669 in the Schoonover daybook.
Dodd, Meade & Co., New York
Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington
Christie's New York, 1 December 1989, lot 92
Illustration House, New York, 2 May 1992, lot 157
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Ashland, Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Howard Pyle and His Students: Works from the Kelly Collection of American, 1995
Abingdon, Virginia, William King Regional Art Center, Adventure Ho! Popular American Illustration 1897-1935, 1998-99
Tennessee, Knoxville Museum of Art, Distant Lands, The Art of the Story: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 2001
Malibu, Pepperdine University, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection, 2013, p. 91, illustrated in color
Hubert Reginald Evans, "Mac Battles for the Code," American Boy, February 1929, p. 16, illustrated
Hubert Reginald Evans, Derry's Partner, New York, 1929, n.p., illustrated
John R. Schoonover, Louise Schoonover Smith, and LeeAnn Dean, Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Castle, DE, 2009, no. 1669, p. 509, illustrated in color
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