Lot Essay
This painting will be included in the forthcoming Frank E. Schoonover catalogue raisonné and is listed in the artist's daybook as no. 1620.
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They set off to penetrate the wilderness and find that gold-field up past the grinning totem-poles of hostile Siwash village, following the river to its headwaters, the two cedar canoes pioneered.
Details
Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972)
They set off to penetrate the wilderness and find that gold-field up past the grinning totem-poles of hostile Siwash village, following the river to its headwaters, the two cedar canoes pioneered.
signed and dated 'F.E. Schoonover-/'28' (lower left)
oil on canvas
22¼ x 46 1/8 in. (56.5 x 117.2 cm.)
They set off to penetrate the wilderness and find that gold-field up past the grinning totem-poles of hostile Siwash village, following the river to its headwaters, the two cedar canoes pioneered.
signed and dated 'F.E. Schoonover-/'28' (lower left)
oil on canvas
22¼ x 46 1/8 in. (56.5 x 117.2 cm.)
Literature
W.B. Mowrey, "Hearts of Flight," Redbook, May 1928, pp. 44-45, illustrated.