Bonhams 1793 : Frank Earle Schoonover (American, 1877-1972) As the canoe swept by, 1950 28 x 46in

PROVENANCE:
Purchased from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. William Stanier, 1950
Thence by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Leech
Thence by descent to Alma Leech
Thence by descent to Darryl Leech, Atlanta, Georgia
With Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware
Private collection, 2005

LITERATURE:
American Boy Magazine, 1940.
Pitz, Henry C., Frank E. Schoonover: An Exemplar of the Pyle Tradition, American Artist, November 1964, p. 65, illustrated.
Schoonover, Frank E., The Edge of Wilderness, Toronto, 1974, p. 156 (titled The Canoeists).
Schoonover, John R., Schoonover, Louise, Dean, LeeAnn, Smith, Louise Schoonover, Frank E. Schoonover, Catalogue Raisonne, Volume II, 2009, p. 702-703, no. 2450, illustrated.

This work was painted in March of 1950 at the request of Mr. William Stanier who had lost an earlier version of this painting in a cabin fire.