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| 2450 |
| As The Canoe Swept By |
| FES Title: | ||
| Alternate Titles: | The Canoeists | |
| Date: | 04/1950 | |
| Size: | 28″H x 46.25″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration [copy] | |
| Published: | Pitz, Henry C. “Frank E. Schoonover: An Exemplar of the Pyle Tradition.” American Artist, November 1964: 65. caption: A painting in oil, duplication of the design of an earlier illustration [1938] destroyed by fire. Collection of William StanierSchoonover, Frank E. The Edge of Wilderness, edited by Cortlandt Schoonover. Toronto: Methuen, 1974: 156. caption: The Canoeists |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / 1950 | |
| Annotations: | en verso: 2203-May 1938 / April 1950 2450 | |
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| Comments: | TP 9/25/03; form 8/27/07; index | |
| Commentary: | In March of 1950, Mr. William Stanier lost a Schoonover painting, #2254, in a cabin fire in Vermont. He asked the artist to paint this copy of the image which he did later the same month. It is painted over #2203. | |
| Provenance: | Sold by artist to Mr. and Mrs. William Stanier [1950]; inherited by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Leech; inherited by Alma Leech; inherited by Darryl Leech, Atlanta, Georgia; Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware; Charles M. Cawley, Wilmington, Delaware (2005); Bonhams, San Francisco, Lot 203 (December 12, 2012); Collection of Patrick Covington (2012); Sold at auction 5/19/16 for $293,000, Christie’s New York | |
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