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| War on the Frontier |
| FES Title: | War on the Frontier Chap 20. Bands of savages were marauding the settlements. | |
| Alternate Titles: | The Borderland (1926, 1927) | |
| Date: | 08/27/1924 | |
| Size: | 36″H x 30″W | |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Madison, Lucy Foster. Washington. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925: 126. caption: Panic Reigned on the Frontier. Bands of Savages Were Marauding the Settlements.______. New York: The Hampton Publishing Company, 1925: 126. caption: Chambers, Robert W. The Little Red Foot. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c. 1921: cover. Grey, Zane. The Last Trail. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c.1909: dust jacket. ______. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Great Western Edition, c. 1909: dust jacket. |
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| Inscription: | ll: Frank E. Schoonover / ’24 | |
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| Exhibitions: | 1926 WSFA; 1927 Albright | |
| Comments: | index; edit | |
| Commentary: | According to a note written by Schoonover’s student and illustrator, Walter Stewart, this painting “was bought by the Wilmington Furniture Co. in the 1930’s [and] hung on landing of stairs to 2nd floor.” Its whereabouts thereafter is unknown. (correspondence / In 1990, auctioneer William Bunch in Wilmington, Delaware, reported that this painting was destroyed in a fire on Berkeley Street in 1989.) This illustration was used by the Schoonovers as the image for one of their Christmas cards. |
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| Provenance: | Sold by artist to Wilmington Furniture Company, Wilmington, Delaware (November 1930); not known |
