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| 216 |
| Long Lake Trout, Canada |
| FES Title: | Trout | |
| Alternate Titles: | Trout-Sketches From the Tent Opening |
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| Date: | 1904 | |
| Size: | 8″H x 13″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | subject painting | |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / Long Lake, Canada 1906 | |
| Annotations: | en verso: Trout caught through holes cut in ice – Long Lake, Canada, 1906. Tent flap pulled aside to permit drawing of the fish on snow. Drawn with hard pastels. | |
| Exhibitions: | 1934 Wesleyan; 1962 FES | |
| Comments: | index; edit; NT 4×5 from owner 6/22/06 | |
| Commentary: | Note the annotations above for a description of this drawing. Schoonover also wrote: “February 19th Some beaver meat was used for bait. By one o’clock the total catch was 86 – not large – good eating size – a number were fryed [sic] for dinner – I returned very soon after eating and made a color drawing from two of the trout – the dark salmon – the male, the lighter – a grey – the female.” (trip diary) The date in the inscription was probably written after Schoonover returned from the trip in 1904. The medium listed as ‘hard pastels’ was a type of crayon that he used in the cold weather. See #194 for further commentary. See related photograph of Schoonover trout fishing in Canada. (#216p) |
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| Provenance: | Sold by artist to Mrs. Richard Sanger (November 1962); Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware; Gary Blakeslee, Wellington, Florida; private collection (c. 2010); Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Lot 3 (December 13, 2021) |
