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“Take Her!”
FES Title: “Take Her”
Alternate Titles: Take Her She’s Mine (1997, 2001)
Date: 10/14/1914
Size: 25″H x 34.5″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Steele, Wilbur Daniel. “Heritage” Harper’s Magazine, July 1915: facing 308.
caption: He turned to his brother, “You will have to take her,” he said
Kelly, Richard J., and Chris Fauver. Art of the Illustrator: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1997: 19.
[not pictured]

Knoxville Museum of Art. Distant Lands, the Art of the Story: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 1894-1938. Knoxville, TN: Knoxville Museum of Art, 2001: 39.
caption: Frank E. Schoonover.

Inscription: ur: F.E. Schoonover / ’14
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1997 Kelly (catalog); 2001 Kelly (catalog)
Comments: size and medium from 2001 exhibition catalog
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Commentary:
Provenance: Lagakos-Turack Gallery, Philadelphia (December 20, 1989); Christie’s, New York (March 14, 1991); The Kelly Collection of American Art, Great Falls, Virginia; Sotheby’s New York, Lot 139 (April 16, 2014); given to the Biggs Museum, Dover, Delaware (April 2021)
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