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Frank Schoonover

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Frank Earle Schoonover (1877 - 1972) was active/lived in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.  Frank Schoonover is known for Illustration-Indians and mountain men.

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 Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a teacher from his studio and from the John Herron Art Institute.

Schoonover grew up spending his summers in the Pocono Mountains, which gave him "an affinity for wilderness scenes". (Zellman 744)

Howard Pyle, with whom he studied at the Drexel Institute, in Wilmington and at Chadd's Ford, was the biggest influence on Schoonover and emphasized the importance of immersing himself in the subject matter he was going to depict.

Schoonover studied for nine years at the Model School in Trenton, and in 1896 entered the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. He opened a studio close to Pyle's in Wilmington, Delaware, and received his first western illustration assignment in 1899. In order to prepare himself for wilderness travel, he went into Hudson Bay country in 1903 and traveled by   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11005 characters.]  Artist bio

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Frank Schoonover in 3 of its research Essays. Frank Schoonover has 21 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Frank Schoonover available:    Harvey Thomas Dunn,  Howard Pyle,  William Henry Dethlef Koerner,  Harold von Schmidt,  Mead Schaeffer,  NC Wyeth,  Tom Lovell,  Dean Cornwell,  George Phippen,  Stanley Arthurs,  Frank B Hoffman,  Frank C McCarthy,  Arthur Burdett Frost,  Donald Teague,  Charlie Dye,  John Ford Clymer,  Jessie Willcox Smith,  Gayle Hoskins,  Olaf Carl Seltzer,  Joseph Christian Leyendecker,  Robert Lougheed,  Edgar Samuel Paxson,  Benton Henderson Clark,  Tom (Thomas) Ryan



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Facts about Frank Schoonover

   Publications  Book References:  51
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Frank Schoonover
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review National Museum of the Marine Corps December 2006 Grow, Charles; Joan Thomas Yes
Illustration The Art of Frank E Schoonover July 2003 Smith, Louise Schoonover Yes
California Art Club Newsletter New Manifestations at Old Mission December 2002 Adams, Elaine Yes
Southwest Art On the Museum Trail July 1998 Busler, Leslie Yes
51 Book References for Frank Schoonover
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Cutler, Laurence S, Judy Goffman Cutler & The National Museum of American Illustrators Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists 448 Yes
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
2001 Schoonover, John R Frank E Schoonover, Catalogue Raisonne 0 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator) Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles 223 Yes
1995 Nemerov, Alexander Frederic Remington & Turn of the Century America 244 Yes
1995 Schwarz-Philadelphia One Hundred Paintings by American & European Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Thiede, Rolf; David Cassedy, Matthew North, Christine Schultz American and European Paintings Under $7,500. (Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia)
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1991 Gilbert Anne American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide 1991 Yes
1991 University Gallery-Delaware Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 161 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Larson, Judy L American Illustration 1890-1925 Romance, Adventure and Suspense 159 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1983 Foxley, William Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art 200 Yes
1982 Ballinger, James/Susan Gordon The Popular West American Illustrators 1900-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Eiteljorg, Harrison Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection 172 Yes
1980 Doezema, Marianne American Realism and the Industrial Age
(Exhibition catalog)		 147 Yes
1979 Brown, Ann Barton Frank E Schoonover, Illustrator
(Exhibition catalog)		 58 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Maurice Sternberg, Galleries The American Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Schoonover, Courtland Frank Schoonover Illustrator of the North American Frontier 207 Yes
1975 Dykes, Jeff Fifty Great Western Illustrators A Bibliographic Checklist 456 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay) American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum 182 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1971 McLanathan, Richard (Introduction) The Brandywine Heritage: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth
(Exhibition catalog)		 121 Yes
1971 Steadman, William E The West and Walter Bimson Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture 223 Yes
1968 Pitz, Henry C The Brandywine Tradition 252 Yes
1966 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s 272 Yes
1961 Mahony, Bertha E (others) Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945 527 No
1940 Ball, Charlotte (editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists 790 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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