Brandywine Museum of Art
One Hoffmans Mill Road
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
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Museums page for Frank Schoonover ((1877 - 1972)), known for Illustration-Indians and mountain men. Showing 11 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1877 Oxford, New Jersey - 1972 Trenton, New Jersey. Known for: Illustration-Indians and mountain men.
Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a teacher from his studio and from the John Herron Art Institute. Schoonover grew up spending his... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a teacher from his studio and from the John Herron Art Institute. Schoonover grew up spending his summers in the Pocono Mountains, which gave him "an affinity for wilderness scenes". (Zellman 744). Howard Pyle, with whom he studied at the Drexel Institute, in Wilmington and at Chadd's Ford, was the... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a teacher from his studio and from the John Herron Art Institute. Schoonover grew up spending his summers in the Pocono Mountains, which gave him "an affinity for wilderness scenes". (Zellman 744). Howard Pyle, with whom he studied at the Drexel Institute, in Wilmington and at Chadd's Ford, was the biggest influence on Schoonover and emphasized the importance of immersing himself in the subject matter he was going to depict. Schoonover studied for nine years at the Model School in Trenton, and in 1896 entered the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia.... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a teacher from his studio and from the John Herron Art Institute. Schoonover grew up spending his summers in the Pocono Mountains, which gave him "an affinity for wilderness scenes". (Zellman 744). Howard Pyle, with whom he studied at the Drexel Institute, in Wilmington and at Chadd's Ford, was the biggest influence on Schoonover and emphasized the importance of immersing himself in the subject matter he was going to depict. Schoonover studied for nine years at the Model School in Trenton, and in 1896 entered the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. He opened a studio close to Pyle's in Wilmington, Delaware, and received his first western illustration assignment in 1899. In orde... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsDelaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians-Western Art
500 West Washington
Indianapolis, IN 46204Glenbow Museum
130 9th Avenue S.E., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary, AB T2G 0P3
CanadaMuseum of Fine Arts-St. Petersburg
255 Beach Drive, N.E.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3498National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
1700 Ne 63rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73111National Museum of the Marine Corps
1775 Semper Fidelis Way
Triangle, VA 22172Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University
Sims Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244The National Museum of American Illustration
Vernon Court
492 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840The Rockwell Museum
111 Cedar Street
Corning, NY 14830-2694University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
181 South College Ave.
Newark, DE 19717-5267