FRANK EARLE SCHOONOVER (American, 1877-1972). Santa Claus in a Hot Air Balloon, The Popular Magazine (Holiday Number) cove... (Total: 3 Items)

Description

FRANK EARLE SCHOONOVER (American, 1877-1972)
Santa Claus in a Hot Air Balloon, The Popular Magazine (Holiday Number) cover, December 7, 1928
Oil on canvas
30 x 26 in.
Signed and dated lower right

This important painting is reproduced as #1665 in Frank E. Schoonover: Catalogue Raisonné vol. II, by John R. Schoonover, et. al., Oak Knoll Press, 2009.

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
The Gift Horse, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1965-68;
Clubhouse Art Gallery, Media, Pennsylvania, 1968;
Shirley Holland, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, circa 1975;
Private collection.

PUBLISHED:
Popular Magazine cover, December 7, 1928;
Cortlandt Schooner, Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1976, page 198;
The Brandywine Bugle magazine cover, 1975;
County Lines magazine cover, December 1979.

EXHIBITED:
The Gift Horse, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1965-68;
Clubhouse Art Gallery, Media, Pennsylvania, 1968;
The Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, "Christmas and Winter
Exhibition", November 28, 1975-January 13, 1976;
The Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, "Faces of Old Kris", November 24, 1995-January 7, 1996.

A framed tearsheet of the magazine cover and framed preliminary sketch as well as letters regarding the exhibition history and other documentation accompany this lot.



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