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It Was A Grim Race
FES Title: It was a grim race, each for himself….. into the heart of a country which no one knew.
Alternate Titles: Illustration and Jacket for “Oklahoma”
[1928]
Date: 01/08/1926
Size: 30″H x 38″W
Medium: oil-cotton-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Cooper, Courtney Riley. “Oklahoma.” Country Gentleman, April 1926: 27.
caption: Then with lurch of wagon and lunge of beast with shout and cry and the firing of guns the line moved forward, a maddened thing.

Cooper, Courtney Riley. Oklahoma. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1926: dust jacket.

______. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926: dust jacket.

Apgar, John F., Jr. Frank E. Schoonover, Painter-Illustrator: A Bibliography. Morristown, NJ: John F. Apgar, Jr., 1969: 10.
caption: The Oklahoma Land Run. Cover illustration from Oklahoma by Courtney Ryley Cooper, Little Brown & Co. 1926.

Inscription: lr: F.E.S. / ’26
Annotations: en verso on stretcher: 1430
en verso on label: Illustration for “Oklahoma” Part 2 1430 Jan 1926, “Then with lurch of wagon and lunge of beast with shout and cry and the firing of guns the line moved forward, a rushing maddened thing.
en verso on label: Illustration and jacket for “Oklahoma” published as serial by Country Gentleman and in book from [sic] by LIttle Brown & Co. Book by Courtney Ryley Cooper.
Exhibitions: 1928 LA Public
Comments: 4×5 received from owner 1/02; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by the artist to private collection; descended in family to private collection