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Three Cowpunchers
FES Title:
[no title entered in day books]
Alternate Titles: The Three [1962]; Hopalong Cassidy, Red Conners and Johnny Nelson [1972]; The Bar-20 Three (1972; 1979); Bar-20 Three (1980, 1991, 1993, 1999)
Date: 03/08/1921
Size: 36″H x 24.25″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-lincanvas
Type: illustration
Published: Mulford, Clarence Edward. The Bar-20 Three. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921: frontispiece.
caption: The Bar-20 Three

______. New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1921: dust jacket.
no caption

______. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921: dust jacket.
no caption

Brooklyn Museum. A Century of American Illustration. [Brooklyn, NY]: Brooklyn Museum, 1972: #67.
caption: Frank E. Schoonover. Hopalong Cassidy, Red Conners and Johnny Nelson. Frontispiece for The Bar-20 Three by Clarence Mulford, 1921. / Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 35 / Lent by the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 54.
caption: Three Cowpunchers

Brandywine River Museum. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1979: 43, 46.
caption: The Bar-20 Three, 1921

The Popular West: American Illustrators 1900-1940. Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, 1982: 22.
caption: Three Cowpunchers

Elzea, Rowland, and Iris Snyder. The American Illustration Collection of the Delaware Art Museum. Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1991: 144. [not pictured]

Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover / ’21
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1962 FES; 1972 Brooklyn (catalog); 1972 95th Birthday; 1979 FES (catalog); 1980 Lancaster; 1982 Popular West (catalog); 1991 DAM; 1993 Eiteljorg; 1999 Cowboy
Comments: relined; trany project 4/1/03; form 4/14/03; examined, not photographed); index; edit 11/06;
DAM accession #42-14; Brooklyn catalog unpages #67 is catalog #
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by artist to Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware. Bequest of Joseph Bancroft [1942]