1923 Frank Schoonover Oil Painting | Best Moment | ANTIQUES ROADSHOW | PBS

well I inherited this painting from my parents my mother wanted to give my father gift that he would really love and he loved reading to his children books that had illustrations and this is one of the illustrations she knew how much she would love to get one of those so she decided that she needed to make this a secret so what she did was she saved five dollars from her food money every week for probably two years oh wow and didn't tell him this right and then he's either his birthday or their anniversary gave him a card that said you can go down to the Schoonover studios and pick out a painting and he was elated to say the least oh how exciting and so we went down as four kids and the mom and dad and we chose a painting after rific what I remember this would have been in the early 60s early mid-60s I'll say dark wooden floors paint I think there were big windows at one end and there was partially completed canvases here there was you know old probably I'll say discarded ones there and you know then there was there was sort of stacks of them this is the one with the clipper ship which he thought was extraordinary and this galleon and I don't know he just he said on that one and we all of course were thrilled oh that's great and we literally loaded it into the car and so it's been in your family ever since ever since and the title of the painting is private tears of 76 right the story was written by an author named Ralph D Payne who apparently wrote several books in the early 20th century and a lot of them relating to history on the back of the painting we have the inventory number for the painting which is number 12:48 there is a label which actually is handwritten and maybe by Schoonover himself that says it it's from chapter 13 the title of the illustration is at a hail from the boat he went to the rail at the hail of the boat meaning the one below the figure on top comes to the rail now Schoonover of course is one of the premiere artists of the Brandywine school and stayed with Howard Pyle who's considered the father yes at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia was very good at wanting to get to reality so not only did he go out west but he also went down to the bayous in Mississippi to sort of get a sense of how the Pirates would have lived in that environment he had a house in Bushkill Pennsylvania in Pike County which is in the Poconos and he would spend his summers there but he used the landscape of that area in many of his paintings you know I think that the card that mr. Schoonover gave my parents when they purchased this said that it was painted in Bushkill is that what it's called yes till Pennsylvania and certainly he was very popular especially in the early part of the 20th century because he Illustrated such classic books as Robinson Crusoe Swiss Family Robinson and he did a whole series of books for on saying gray Western novels so he was quite into it as well as magazine illustrations he was born in 1877 and he actually lived to 1972 so he was primarily painting in the early 20th century and really I think up until he passed away the pending of course is oil on canvas and looks like the original frame this paint is dated in the lower right 23 1923 and that's when the novel was first published he is popular as an illustrator nationwide if this were in a gallery I think that it would sell in the range of $125,000 I know you're kidding me I'm not kidding this it's a wonderful yes really it's a wonderful thing my father would be so thrilled to know that people were being turned on to illustrations and my mother be really thrilled what you just said well I mean her investment with there's a big surge of interest in illustration I love this painting yeah I love this painting

Channel: Antiques Roadshow PBS

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Length: 4min 23sec (263 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 16 2020