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| 519 |
| A Clean Shave |
| FES Title: | A Clean Shave. | |
| Alternate Titles: | “He worked with the air of a man who has come at last to some decision, turned to reach for the towel – and looked into the muzzle of his own gun, with his daughter’s resolute eyes behind it” |
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| Date: | 08/17/1912 | |
| Size: | 21.75″H x 33″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Cook, Grace McGowen. “A Clean Shave.” The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, November 1912: 64. caption: “He worked with the air of a man who has come at last to some decision, turned to reach for the towel – and looked into the muzzle of his own gun, with his daughter’s resolute eyes behind it” Larson, Judy L. American Illustration, 1890-1925: Romance, Adventure & Suspense. Calgary, AB: Glenbow Museum, 1986: 157. [not pictured] (catalog) |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / B. ’12 | |
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| Exhibitions: | 1986 Glenbow (catalog) | |
| Comments: | [no information en verso]
black and white relined with wax; [oil sketch for this is at Delaware Art Museum]; Glenbow #R624.3083
seen 8/03; form 8/21/03; index; edit |
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| Commentary: | While the final version of this work is en grisaille, its watercolor sketch, #519s, was executed in color. This illustration was published as a half-tone plate engraved by H. C. Merrill.
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| Provenance: | Artist; Helen L. Card, Latendorf Bookshop, New York; The Devonian Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (August 2, 1969); Collection of Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada [1979] |
