1248
Claghorn at Rail
FES Title: Claghorn at rail
Alternate Titles: Adrift Off Cape Horn
[1965]
Date: 07/13/1923
Size: 36″H x 30″W
Medium: oil-cotton-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Paine, Ralph D. “Privateers of ’76.” The American Boy, December 1923: 24.
caption: As He Leaned Over to Look Down, His Hands Shook and He Almost Collapsed. In the Bow of the Boat Was a Familiar Figure.
Paine, Ralph D. Privateers of ’76. Phildelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1923: facing 261.
caption: At a Hail from the Boat He Went to the Rail
Inscription: lr: Frank E Schoonover / ’23
Annotations: en verso on label on stretcher: sixth installment- Privateers ’76 = 1248 = 1923 / Chap VIII= / At a hail from the boat he went to the rail to drop a…
en verso: 1248
Exhibitions: 1965 Gift Horse
Comments: TP 6/19/13; form 6/19/03; index; edit
1965 Gift Horse
Commentary: In 2019, Denis Chandler described his father’s admiration and love of illustrated books. Further, he explained that his mother saved her money for two years to buy this work from Frank Schoonover at his studio at 1616 North Rodney Street in Wilmington in June 1960.

In 2019, this painting was featured on PBS program Antiques Roadshow, which was filmed at Winterthur in Wilmington, Delaware. Subsequently, the painting was on display from March – July 2020 in the American Illustration Gallery at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware.

Provenance: Sold by artist to Mr. and Mrs. James T. Chandler III, Wilmington, Delaware (June 1960); Collection of Denis L. Chandler