2129 |
The Wagon Train |
FES Title: | 3rd Instalment |
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Date: | 05/31/1936 | |
Size: | 50″H x 54″W | |
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Type: | illustration | |
Published: | Case, Robert Ormond. “The Ninety and Nine.” Country Gentleman, August 1936: 9. caption: Early in August the Nesmith immigrant train came into a sun-baked demesne devoid of water, grass or life Pitz, Henry C. “Frank E Schoonover: An Exemplar of the Pyle Tradition.” American Artist, November 1964: 69. Egan, Ferol. The El Dorado Trail: the Story of the Gold Rush Routes across Mexico. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984: cover. Duffus, R. L. The Santa Fe Trail. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972: cover. Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 108. Stewart, Rick. Vision of the West. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1986: 33. (catalog) Zellman, Michael David, compiler. 300 Years of American Art. Secaucus, NJ; Secaucus Press, 1987: 744. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: cover. |
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Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / ’36 | |
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Exhibitions: | 1986 Visions | |
Comments: | index; [good image in FES book] as per daybook: on landscape linen Weber 115; |
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Commentary: | A humorous visual image arises from the daybook entry for this painting: “Delivered – June 1st Hard time taking up. High wind. Picture blown off car twice.” | |
Provenance: | Mongerson, Chicago, Illinois (April 1976); Folsom Investments, Inc., Addison, Texas [1976]; Christie’s, New York (May 22, 1991); private collection |