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Woefully Exhausted as He Was – His Brain Was Clear
FES Title: Woefully exhausted as he was – his brain was clear – he knew where he was going.
Alternate Titles: Trapper and Mac (1995, 1998, 2001)
Date: 10/17/1928
Size: 27.5″H x 38″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Evans, Hubert. “Mac Battles for the Code.” The American Boy, February 1929: 16.
caption: They battled for each hard-won mile across the range, the wind sweeping at them like a strong and soundless unseen river.

Evans, Hubert. Derry’s Partner. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929: dust jacket, facing 214, lining pages.
caption: They battled for each hard-won mile across the range, the wind sweeping at them like a strong and soundless river

______. New York: Grosset & Dunlap; c.1928, 1929: dust jacket.

Randolph-Macon College and Richard J. Kelly. Howard Pyle and His Students: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Ashland, VA: Randolph-Macon College, 1995: n.p. (catalog)
caption: “Trapper and Mac”

Adventure Ho! Popular American Illustrators 1897-1935: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Abingdon, VA: William King Regional Arts Center, 1998: 19. (catalog)
caption: Trapper and Mac. Frank Earle Schoonover, oil on canvas, 27.5x 38, 1928.

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. (catalog)
caption: Frank E. Schoonover.

Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover / ’28
lr after publication:To Laura Cocliss Hackett
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1995 Kelly; 1998 Kelly; 2001 Kelly
Comments: Christie’s New York (12/1/1989) – not sold; Illustration House -1992
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Commentary: For commentary, see #231.
Provenance: Sold by artist to Robert Hackett (April 15, 1938); Mrs. Gladys Stewart (as of 1985); not known (March 4, 1986); Christie’s New York (December 1, 1989); Illustration House, New York
[1992]; The Kelly Collection of American Illustration, Great Falls, Virginia