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| This Battle Was to the Death for Something Even Greater Than Food |
| FES Title: | Stab-tail had slain another of the geese Shane guarded, and flight was the last thing the dog desired of him – This battle was to the death for something even greater than food – | |
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| Date: | 04/1934 | |
| Size: | 32″H x 30″W | |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | East, Ben. “Coward’s Blood.” The American Boy–Youth’s Companion, July 1934: 17. caption: Shane wasted no time in barking. This battle was to the death. |
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| Inscription: | ll: F.E.S. / ’34 | |
| Annotations: | en verso on typed label: Coward’s Blood 1936 | |
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| Comments: | slide; index; edit | |
| Commentary: | The owner writes the following account: “My father was the manager of the Warner Brothers movie theatres in Wilmington, Delaware. He knew N.C. Wyeth and Frank Schoonover very well. Apparently, Mr. Schoonover had asked my father to let him have some of the movie stills. According to my father, Mr. Schoonover appreciated the detail Hollywood lavished on costuming and wanted the stills for the pictures of buckles and other parts of clothing. It was not unusual for my father to take a clutch of these stills over to the Schoonover Studio. Sometimes I went along. I remember visiting the Schoonover Studio…On one of these visits…I wandered over to a trash barrel and pulled out |
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| Provenance: | Given by the artist to private collection | |
