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| 459 |
| The Boy on the Rock |
| FES Title: | The Boy on the rock | |
| Alternate Titles: | Castles in the Air (1912, 1913, 1914); Day Dreams |
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| Date: | 10/07/1911 | |
| Size: | 34″H x 22″W | |
| Medium: | oil on canvas | |
| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Crissey, Forrest. “The Tower of Revolt.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, February 1912: frontispiece. caption: He was lying on his back looking up through the branches of the black walnut |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / ’11 | |
| Annotations: | ||
| Exhibitions: | 1912 Boston; 1913, Canada; 1914 WSFA; 1962 FES | |
| Comments: | index; edit | |
| Commentary: | As models for paintings #459 – 466, Schoonover used Odis Brown, a boy from the neighborhood around his studio which was located at 1616 N. Rodney Street in Wilmington, Delaware. | |
| Provenance: | Sold by artist to John Bird (December 15, 1914); inherited by Samuel B. Bird (1962 exhibit); Kathleen Pagano, Carol Montgomery, and Steve Wylie; Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware (2014); private collection (2016) |
