Frank Schoonover. Frank Earle Schoonover was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware.
A member of the Brandywine School, he was a contributing illustrator to magazines and did more than 5,000 paintings. Schoonover was born on August 19, 1877, in Oxford, New Jersey.
He studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. March 1925 cover of The American Boy by Schoonover Schoonover became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School when he opted to study art rather than the ministry.
A prolific contributor to books and magazines during the early twentieth century, the so-called Golden Age of Illustration, he illustrated stories as diverse as Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars. In 1918 and 1919, he produced a series of paintings along with Gayle Porter Hoskins illustrating the American forces in the First World War for a series of souvenir prints published in the Ladies Home Journal.
Over the course of his career, he made more than 5,000 paintings, many of which were influenced by his travels and the people he met. Schoonover helped to organize what is now the Delaware Art Museum and was chairman of the fundraising committee charged with acquiring works by Howard Pyle. In his later years he restored paintings including some by Pyle and turned to easel paintings of the Brandywine and Delaware landscapes
A member of the Brandywine School, he was a contributing illustrator to magazines and did more than 5,000 paintings. Schoonover was born on August 19, 1877, in Oxford, New Jersey.
He studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. March 1925 cover of The American Boy by Schoonover Schoonover became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School when he opted to study art rather than the ministry.
A prolific contributor to books and magazines during the early twentieth century, the so-called Golden Age of Illustration, he illustrated stories as diverse as Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars. In 1918 and 1919, he produced a series of paintings along with Gayle Porter Hoskins illustrating the American forces in the First World War for a series of souvenir prints published in the Ladies Home Journal.
Over the course of his career, he made more than 5,000 paintings, many of which were influenced by his travels and the people he met. Schoonover helped to organize what is now the Delaware Art Museum and was chairman of the fundraising committee charged with acquiring works by Howard Pyle. In his later years he restored paintings including some by Pyle and turned to easel paintings of the Brandywine and Delaware landscapes
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