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Eagle and Woods
FES Title: Heading Eagle & Woods
Alternate Titles: The Rim of the Magellan Range
[1977]; The Eagle Kept on Sailing Around and Around, and Going Higher [1979]
Date: 09/01/1921
Size: 20.125″H x 30″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-lincanvas
Type: illustration
Published: Schultz, James Willard. “Seizer of Eagles.” The American Boy, November 1921: 18.
caption: The Eagle Kept on Sailing Around and Around, and Going Higher

Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 178.
caption: At Last We Climbed the Steep Rim of the Magellan Range

Brandywine River Museum. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1979: 48. [not pictured]

The Sewell C. Biggs Collection of American Art: A Catalogue. Dover, DE: Biggs Museum of American Art, 2002: 406.
caption: The Eagle

Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover / ’21
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1977 FES; 1979 FES (catalog)
Comments: image from Biggs Museum; index; db size 20×30; edit 11/06; mounted on board
Commentary: It is possible that Schoonover used an old unfinished canvas for this work because it was described as ‘old start of “Rest on Trail”.’ (day books)
Provenance: Sewell C. Biggs, Middletown, Delaware; Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware