2401
Below Sandy Beach – Sunset Effect – Boy Scouts Making Camp
FES Title: Below Sandy Beach – Sunset effect – Boy scouts making camp.
Alternate Titles: Sundown at Sandy Beach
[1965]
Date: 08/02/1946
Size: 22″H x 28″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: landscape
Published:
Inscription: lr: Frank E. Schoonover / ’46
Annotations: 2401 / Aug. 1, 1946 / and work in Wilmington / studio
Exhibitions: 1965 Gift Horse; 1978 Shawnee (title unverified)
Comments: TP 1/15/02; index;
Commentary: “This picture has been worked on several times in Wil. studio.” (day books)
Sometimes the artist began landscapes while in Bushkill, but finished them in his studio in Wilmington, Delaware. It is not clear whether this one was finished from memory or a photograph that Schoonover might have taken of that scene.
Provenance: Artist: Gift Horse, West Chester, Pennsylvania [1965]; Shawnee Inn, Bushkill Pennsylvania [1978]; Richard Soraci; Deaver Hobbs, Wilmington, Delaware; inherited by Elizabeth Hobbs, Wilmington, Delaware; James Stein, Wilmington, Delaware (circa 2016)