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War on the Frontier
FES Title: War on the Frontier Chap 20. Bands of savages were marauding the settlements.
Alternate Titles: The Borderland (1926, 1927)
Date: 08/27/1924
Size: 36″H x 30″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Madison, Lucy Foster. Washington. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925: 126.
caption: Panic Reigned on the Frontier. Bands of Savages Were Marauding the Settlements.
______. New York: The Hampton Publishing Company, 1925: 126.
caption:
[same]

Chambers, Robert W. The Little Red Foot. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c. 1921: cover.
no caption.

Grey, Zane. The Last Trail. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c.1909: dust jacket.
no caption

______. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Great Western Edition, c. 1909: dust jacket.
no caption

Inscription: ll: Frank E. Schoonover / ’24
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1926 WSFA; 1927 Albright
Comments: index; edit
Commentary: According to a note written by Schoonover’s student and illustrator, Walter Stewart, this painting “was bought by the Wilmington Furniture Co. in the 1930’s [and] hung on landing of stairs to 2nd floor.” Its whereabouts thereafter is unknown. (correspondence / In 1990, auctioneer William Bunch in Wilmington, Delaware, reported that this painting was destroyed in a fire on Berkeley Street in 1989.)
This illustration was used by the Schoonovers as the image for one of their Christmas cards.
Provenance: Sold by artist to Wilmington Furniture Company, Wilmington, Delaware (November 1930); not known