1199
“Seek Signs!” Commanded the Wolf
FES Title: “Seek signs!”
Alternate Titles:
Date: 02/03/1923
Size: 25″H x 44″W
Medium: oil-cotton-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Friel, Arthur O. “El Renegado.” Country Gentleman, 14 April 1923: 13.
caption: The Brown Men Advanced Up the Slope. The Wolf Stood Where He Was, Face Inscrutable.
Inscription: ll: F.E. Schoonover / ’23
Annotations: en verso label on stretcher: Illustration for
[El Renegado] / no. 1199 Feb 1923 / From Galley 3 #1014 / The canoe slowed, crept on, turned into a narrow recess in the stone, “Seed signes,” commanded the Wolf.
en verso: Pd Schoonover 2/8/23
Exhibitions:
Comments: TP 11/21/02; Form 11/21/02; index; edit
relined
problem: differing information on the stretcher and in day books. Not reconcilable so would be only confusing to reader.
Commentary:
Provenance: Jerald Bell, St. Petersburg, Florida; Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware. (November 1973); Collection of Donald and Linda Blow, Smyrna, Delaware (July 1985); Christie’s American Art, New York, Lot 166 (November 2017)