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Poling Up Rapids
FES Title: Poling up Rapids
Alternate Titles: Poling the Abitibi
[1925]; Land of His Fathers
Date: 09/30/1915
Size: 21″H x 33″W
Medium: oil-on-Best
Type: ilIustration
Published: Marsh, George T. “The Land of His Fathers.” Scribner’s Magazine, June 1919: 757.
caption: Again at his signal the crew thrust the boat forward.–Page755.

Marsh, George T. Toilers of the Trails. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1921: 221.
caption: Again at his Signal the Crew Thrust the Boat Forward

Inscription: lr: F.E Schoonover / ’15
Annotations: en verso on label on stretcher: This painting has been restored-cleaned 7/47 / by Frank E. Schoonover. / Valued or appraised by Frank Schoonover / Signed Frank E. Schoonover / #698 Published Scribner’s Magazine / Sept. 1915 — story Land of His Fathers / Geo. T. Marsh
Exhibitions: 1925 Washington
Comments: digital image and permission from Cornell 2001; #60.006; LSS in person 8/03 ; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by artist to Samuel B. Bird; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Unversity, Ithaca, New York. Gift of Samuel B. Bird [1960]
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