Description:
Frank Earle Schoonover (American, 1877-1972)
Below Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
Signed and dated "Frank E. Schoonover/1942" l.r., titled on a gummed label affixed to the back of the frame.
Oil on Masonite, 24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.0 cm),framed.
Condition: Retouch, craquelure, minor frame abrasion.
Literature: John R. Schoonover, Louise Schoonover Smith, and LeeAnn Dean, Frank E. Schoonover catalogue raisonné (New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009),p. 666, cat. no. 2300.
N.B. The catalogue raisonné states that Schoonover traveled to New Hampshire in September 1942 and rendered two landscapes of Franconia Notch. The lot is accompanied by the two volume catalogue raisonné.
Estimate $10,000-15,000
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