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Playing Craps
FES Title: Playing craps
Alternate Titles: Most street workers are inveterate players of the game of “craps”
Date: 03/02/1903
Size: 8.5″H x 13″W
Medium:
Type: illustration
Published: Poole, Ernest C. “The Waifs of the Street.” McClure’s Magazine, May 1903: 47.
caption: “Most street workers are inveterate players at the game of ‘craps.'”Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 159.
caption: Playing CrapsBrandywine River Museum. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1979: 14, 51.
caption: Playing Craps, 1903Drexel University Museum. Frank E. Schoonover at Drexel: Illustration and the Academic Tradition 1892-1903. Philadelphia: Drexel University, 1986: 54.
caption: 58. Playing CrapsThe Sewell C. Biggs Collection of American Art: A Catalogue. Dover, DE: Biggs Museum of American Art, 2002: 401.
caption: Playing craps
Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1979 FES (catalog); 1983 DAM; 1986 FES Drexel (catalog)
Comments: TP image from Biggs Museum 92.69 ; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by the the artist to Sewell C. Biggs, Middletown, Delaware; Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware