FRANK EARLE SCHOONOVER (American, 1877-1972). On Drifted a Short Raft Carrying a Man and a Maid, Country Gentleman illustr...

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FRANK EARLE SCHOONOVER (American, 1877-1972)
On Drifted a Short Raft Carrying a Man and a Maid, Country Gentleman illustration, March 23, 1923
Oil on board
24 x 38.5 in.
Signed lower right

"With real paddles the pair might have reached the port, but the wretched makeshift in their hands were now futile."

LITERATURE:
A. O. Friel, El Renegado, Country Gentleman, May 5, 1923, page 16;
J. R. Schoonover, et al., Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonné, New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2009, volume 1, page 387, figure 1205.

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

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