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| The Blue Dress |
| FES Title: | ||
| Alternate Titles: | Female Portrait |
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| Date: | 12/1899 | |
| Size: | 36″H x 16″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | student painting | |
| Published: | Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 17. caption: Female Portrait Drexel University Museum. Frank E. Schoonover at Drexel: Illustration and the Academic Tradition 1892-1903. Philadelphia: Drexel University, 1986: 38. The Sewell C. Biggs Collection of American Art: A Catalogue. Dover, DE: Biggs Museum of American Art, 2002: 399. |
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| Inscription: | en verso: Frank E. Schoonover / ‘Dec. 1899: Student Painting / Dec. 1899 / SP007 | |
| Annotations: | [see inscription] | |
| Exhibitions: | 1986 FES Drexel (catalog) |
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| Comments: | TP image from Biggs Museum; index; edit | |
| Commentary: | “The portrait of this figure emerges wraith-like from the somber, muted background. Schoonover effectively paints the translucent shawl covering the figure’s shoulders, indicating a mastery of glazing technique not previously evident…and the artist has made a more successful attempt at chiaroscuro.” (Drexel University Museum, 38) | |
| Provenance: | Sold by the artist to Sewell C. Biggs, Middletown, Delaware; Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware |
