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| 1000 |
| As Darkness Settled Over the North Country |
| FES Title: | As darkness settled over the north country, a little fire twinkled in the bush, and the odor of sizzling bacon & liver permeated the cozy camp | |
| Alternate Titles: | As Darkness Settled |
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| Date: | 01/11/1921 | |
| Size: | 40″H x 28″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Hendryx, James B. “The Trail in the Snow.” The American Boy, March 1921: 11. caption: As Darkness Settled Over the North Country, a Little Fire Twinkled in the Bush, and the Odor of Sizzling Bacon and Frying Liver Permeated the Cozy Camp. Hendryx, James B. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921: cover, 182. Schoonover, Frank E. The Edge of the Wilderness, edited by Cortlandt Schoonover. Toronto: Methuen, 1974: 63. Brandywine River Museum. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1979: 339, 44. |
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| Inscription: | lm: Frank E. Schoonover / ’21 | |
| Annotations: | en verso on liner on Brandywine River Museum label: FES Illustrator / 9/7 -11/18, 1979 / As Darkness Settled Over the North Country / o/canvas 1920 / DAM Long term loan from / [private collection] | |
| Exhibitions: | 1969 FES; 1977 FES; 1979 Artists of the Brandywine; 1979 FES (catalog) | |
| Comments: | TP 1/15/02; form 2/24/03; NT 4×5[4]; index edit | |
| Commentary: | In discussing this day book number, Schoonover wrote: “About a year ago when I reached 940, I began to wonder what sort of a picture I would be painting for the thousandth. Now there isn’t anything magic about that number 1,000, but it sort of marks a long period of work – kind of a monument that one erects for himself…I wanted that thousandth picture to be one of the open, an out-of-doors illustration – perhaps something of Canada…but when number 995 came and then number 999, I realized that I was so busy there just wasn’t time to stop and make a special 1,000th one, so I let the picture…come as it happened to in natural progression. So it was that Connie and ‘Merican Joe drew the big round number. And it was very fortunate…for I painted my own Canadian Wood life into the illustration…I had real fun painting this picture…The camp you see in the illustration is just the same sort of a ‘one night home’ I have made many times in the far northland.” (Schoonover, Frank E. “Bringing the Outdoors In”, The American Boy, March 1921:10) | |
| Provenance: | Sold by the artist to Mrs. Willard Springer, Wilmington, Delaware (1969 exhibition); private collection (prior to 1979) |
