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| 1545a |
| The Indian Sun Priest |
| FES Title: | – old Indian painting buffalo robe | |
| Alternate Titles: | Sun priests painting buffalo skins with symbols of their dreams |
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| Date: | 05/12/1927 | |
| Size: | 30″H x 34.125″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Schultz, James Willard. “Red Crow’s Brother.” The American Boy, August 1927: cover. no caption The Instructor, October 1933: cover. Pitz, Henry C. “Frank E. Schoonover: An Exemplar of the Pyle Tradition.” American Artist, November 1964: 69. International Art Gallery. Brandywine Tradition Artists; Featuring the Works of Howard Pyle, Frank E. Schoonover, the Wyeth Family, Charles Colombo, David Hanna. New York: Great American Editions, 1971. (catalog) Schoonover, Frank E. The Edge of the Wilderness, edited by Cortlandt Schoonover. Toronto: Methuen, 1974: 146. Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 101. Elzea, Rowland and Iris Snyder. The American Illustration Collection of the Delaware Art Museum. Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1991: 85, 143. |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / 1927 | |
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| Exhibitions: | 1927 WSFA; 1931 FES; 1933 WSFA; 1962 WSFA Copeland; 1962 FES; 1969 DAM; 1971 Brandywine Tradition (catalog); 1972 95th Birthday; 1985 DAM; 1985 Best; 1990 Fort Lauderdale | |
| Comments: | painted over #1293 restretched to 30×34 TP 4/14/03; form 4/14/03 (examined, not photographed); NT 4×5; index; relined; edit DAM accession #33-1 |
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| Commentary: | This image was painted over #1293. In the 1970’s, it was made into a print.This painting was the ‘Work of the Month’ at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE in 1998. |
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| Provenance: | Sold by artist to Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware. Louisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund [1933] |
