Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)

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.