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Lot Description

Frank Earle Schoonover

(American, 1877-1972)

Do You Think You Could Find News?

, 1915

oil on canvas

signed F.E. Schoonover, dated, and inscribed (lower right); signed and inscribed (verso)

26 x 14 inches.

Provenance:
The artist
Given by the artist to S. Pubb, February 1916
Sold: Bunch Auctions, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1992
Daniel Elder, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Sold: Illustration House, Inc., New York, May 6, 1995, lot 196
Private Collection

Literature:
Charles Tretheway, “The Fugitive,” The Saturday Evening Post, June 26, 1915: 14
John R. Schoonover, Louise Schoonover Smith, LeeAnn Dean, Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonné, New Castle, Delaware, 2009, no. 32

Originally painted in 1915 for the story, "The Fugitive," Schoonover gifted the artwork to S. Pubb. He dedicated and re-dated it at that time.

Condition Report

Condition:
Framed: 30 x 18 inches.
Craquelures along center right and left edges. Under UV, inpainting visible in upper left corner; one small area of inpainting above woman's head; scattered inpainting in lower edge and proper left pant leg of man; and through inscription in lower right corner, which was done by the artist. Please request additional images.

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