Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)
Lot 149

Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)

"He Turned on Them and Told Them to Sit"

Fermé22 May 2018

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Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)
"He Turned on Them and Told Them to Sit"
signed with initials and dated 'FE.S./20' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 40 in. (58.4 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1920.

Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Note du spécialiste

The present work was published as an illustration for W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Macintosh: A Story of the South Seas” in the November 1920 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The story takes place on Talua, a Samoan Island, and centers on a Londoner named Macintosh and his boss Walker, whose duty is to oversee the wellbeing of the island and its people.