1550
The Spring Round-up Was a Long Task
FES Title: The spring round-up was a long task owing to the wild timberland and rough canyons where the cattle ranged
Alternate Titles: Spring Roundup
[1961]; Bringing in the Strays [1965] The Cattle Drive [1996]
Date: 04/27/1927
Size: 28.5″H x 38″W
Medium: oil-cotton-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Grey, Zane. “Avalanche.” Country Gentleman, February 1928: 4.
caption: The round-up was a long task, owing to the wild timberland and rough canyons where the cattle ranged

Harmsen, Dorothy. American Western Art A Collection of One Hundred Twenty-Five Western Paintings and Sculpture with Biographies of the Artists. [Denver]: Harmsen Pub. Co, 1977: 183.
caption: The Cattle Drive.

Inscription: lr: Schoonover / ’27
Annotations: en verso on stretcher: 1550
en verso in Schoonover’s hand: Frank E. Schoonover / The Cattle Drive 4/27
Exhibitions: 1961 Warehouse; 1965 Gift Horse; 1996 Harmsen; 2000 Harmsen
Comments: index; edit;
Commentary:
Provenance: Baker Collectors Gallery, Lubbock, Texas; Bill and Dorothy Harmson Collection, Snyder Texas; Christie’s, New York [2005]; Collection of Harvey and Sue Allon [2005]