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Frank Earle Schoonover(1877-1972)Connie and Sheepherder 32 1/4 x 38in
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Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)
signed 'F.E. Schoonover' (lower right), dated and numbered '(Oct)-|22| 1180' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 38in
Painted in 1922.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Mr. Gail C. Belden, Wilmington, Delaware, acquired from the above, 1968.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
J.B. Hendryx, "Connie the Green," The American Boy, December 1922, p. 19, illustrated.
J.B. Hendryx, Connie Morgan in the Cattle Country, New York, 1923, p. 196, illustrated.
J.R. Schoonover, L.S. Smith, L. Dean, Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Castle, Delaware, 2009, p. 381, no. 1180, illustrated.
The present work was produced by the artist in 1922 to illustrate the pages of James Beardley Hendryx's story "Connie the Green," published in The American Boy magazine. The story profiled the adventures of the main character Connie Morgan whose rugged adventures took him throughout the American West and Northwest. During a tense encounter, Connie draws his pistol toward his aggressor, the present work illustrates this exchange. The caption below the reproduction of this painting read, "...Then Froze in His Tracks as He Found Himself Staring into the Muzzle of the Boy's Service Revolver." The author's Connie Morgan series of fictional novels began with its first published volume Connie Morgan in Alaska, in 1916, published by G.P. Putnam & Sons. The present lot Connie and Sheepherder was reproduced a second time after inclusion in The American Boy and was printed in the pages of Connie Morgan in the Cattle Country, the fifth volume in the series, published in 1922.
























