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Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

Frank Earle Schoonover

"Woefully Exhausted as He Was - His Brain Was Clear"

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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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