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| Pilot at the Wheel |
| FES Title: | Pilot at the wheel | |
| Alternate Titles: | Billy Owens (1977, 1980) | |
| Date: | 12/09/1901 | |
| Size: | 16.25″H x 10.25″W | |
| Medium: | charcoal on paper | |
| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Gibson, Willis. “Murnane and the ‘Illinois’: A Story of the Upper Mississippi.” McClure’s Magazine, August 1903: 363. caption: “Billy Owens started in on some dainty steering” |
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| Inscription: | lm: Frank E. Schoonover / December 1901 | |
| Annotations: | en verso: Murnane and the Illinois / Billy Owens started in on some dainty steering / FE Schoonover ——– 1901 / Studio 11 E 8th (over Gray’s printing shop)
en verso on label: This was the first effort in black and white– / most all of the previous efforts have been in color / and its reproduction will not be good – so I / gave owner the color idea – and made this / drawing I took it to New York – and / asked the publishers – at Harper’s – Century / and other publishers about its medium – they / were so enthusiastic – that for a time / I gave all my attention to black – and white.-
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| Exhibitions: | 1977 FES; 1980 Lancaster | |
| Comments: | TP 6/19/03; Form 6/19/03; index; edit; added date after PA |
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| Provenance: | A. Cypen Lubitsch, Wilmington, Delaware; Bunch Auctions, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania [2003]; private collection [2003]; Collection of John Waeltz (April 16, 2022) | |
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