Title
Stroke Jumping - "Broken Oar"
Date
March
23
Notes
This painting was sold to the School by Frank E. Schoonover. It was used as an illustration for Walter Camp's "The Mystery of Rowing" published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July 1910. As per the Catalogue Raisonnee (see note following): "Schoonover visited the University of Pennsylvania gym on February 22, 23, and 24, to photograph rowers on the rowing machines. He also took photographs and sketched in the University boat house and then spent twenty-eight days completing this illustration and the companion rowing illustration [Schoonover day book] #411."
The information about the School's painting is derived from Volume I, Schoonover day book #410, of the Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonne, by John R. Schoonover, Louise Schoonover Smith, with Lee Ann Dean; Publisher Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2009. Volume I and II of the Catalogue can be found in the Irene duPont Library, call #741.6 SCH. The original painting hangs in the Admissions Common Room of Founders Hall. The JPEG made available here is courtesy of the Frank E. Schoonover Fund, Inc.
Inscription: Frank E. Schoonover / '10
Size: 36"h x 24"w
Medium: oil on canvas
The information about the School's painting is derived from Volume I, Schoonover day book #410, of the Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonne, by John R. Schoonover, Louise Schoonover Smith, with Lee Ann Dean; Publisher Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2009. Volume I and II of the Catalogue can be found in the Irene duPont Library, call #741.6 SCH. The original painting hangs in the Admissions Common Room of Founders Hall. The JPEG made available here is courtesy of the Frank E. Schoonover Fund, Inc.
Inscription: Frank E. Schoonover / '10
Size: 36"h x 24"w
Medium: oil on canvas
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