1863
A Few Made a Dash for the Poop and for Us Who Stood To Meet Them…
FES Title: Page – 192 – A few made a dash for the poop – and for us who stood to meet them…The former I met and sent tumbling down into the waist
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Date: 07/02/1931
Size: 32″H x 24″W
Medium: oil-on-Linen-canvas
Type: Illustration
Published: Johnston, Mary. To Have and To Hold. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931: facing 190.
caption: The former I met and sent tumbling back into the waist
Inscription: lr: Frank E. Schoonover
Annotations: en verso on label on stretcher: Illustration for “To Have and To Hold” (Mary Johnson) / No. 1863 / Chapter 25 Pg. 233 / A few made a dash for the poop and for us who stood to meet them. / They were led by the Spaniard and the grave digger. The former / I met and sent tumbling back into the waist. / Painted by Frank E. Schoonover week of July 2 ’31
en verso on label on stretcher: Remounted by Frank E. Schoonover
Exhibitions:
Comments: TP 2/26/03; form 2/27/03; index; edit
mounted on masonite by artist
en verso on frame: no. 1865 Silliman To Have and to Hold
Commentary: Schoonover writes in his daybook that the painting was damaged, so he repaired it and mounted it on masonite on March 16, 1959.
Provenance: Sold by artist to private collection (April 1959); descended in family to private collection