Frank Earle Schoonover

AMERICAN (1877 – 1972) He turned to his brother, "You will have to take her", He said, 1914 Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 – September 1, 1972) was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware. Schoonover studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School. A prolific contributor to books and magazines during the early twentieth century, the so-called "Golden Age of Illustration", he illustrated stories as diverse as Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars. This is a story illustration for "Heritage: A Story," by W. D. Steele for Harper's Monthly, July 1915, p. 308. Oil on canvas Signed F. Schoonover and dated '14 upper right 25 x 34 in. (63.5 x 86.5 cm.) SOLD