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“I’m Bobby Zachariah, from Abel’s Bay”
FES Title: “I’m Bobby Zachariah, from Abel’s Bay”
Alternate Titles: “I was hunting,” explained Bobby. “The ice broke loose and cut Jimmy and me off from Skipper Ed”
[1999]; The Capture
Date: 06/21/1916
Size: 27.125″H x 18″W
Medium: oilColumbiacanvas
Type: illustration
Published: Wallace, Dillon. Bobby of the Labrador. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916: facing 300.
caption: “I was hunting,” explained Bobby. “The ice broke loose and cut Jimmy and me off from Skipper Ed”

Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 125.
caption: The Capture

Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover / ’16
Annotations: en verso on paper label: “Chapter XXV Pages 1-[?] / Bobby Zachariah from Abel’s Bay. The ice broke loose and cut / Jimmy & me off from Skipper Ed and Jimmy’s drowned

 

Exhibitions: 1999 Biggs
Comments: relined and restretched;
digital 5/20/04; form 5/20/04; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by the artist to private collection; descended in family to private collection
Current Owner: