531
“Good-a-fel,” Mused the Old Gardener
FES Title: “Good a fel”
Alternate Titles:
Date: 10/14/1912
Size: 34″H x 16″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Moroso, John A. “All That Glitters.” American Magazine, April 1913: 37.
caption: “Good-a-fel’,” mused the old gardner. “Tommaso Salvatore make-a you one gran’ champ'”
Inscription: lr: ’12 / Schoonover
Annotations: en verso on label on stretcher: Painting by Frank Schoonover – An Illustration for the story / All That Glitters, Published in the American Magazine / April 1913 FES #532 / Good-A Fel mused the Old Gardner. Tommaso / Salvatore make-A You One Gran Champ.
Exhibitions:
Comments: TP 8/7/02; form 2/9/03; index; edit 11/06
relined; background overpainted
Altmayer- on auction 10-20-___ Phillips
Commentary: The grey ground of this vignette has been overpainted.
Provenance: Gladys J. Ashcraft, Mentor, Ohio; Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware (as of August 1994); Newman Galleries, Philadelphia
[1998]; Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware; Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Kristol [2003]
Current Owner: