Born in Oxford, New Jersey, an industrial town, Frank Schoonover earned a reputation as a skilled illustrator and as a portrait, figure and landscape painter of lively western scenes. He was also a teacher from his studio and from the John Herron Art Institute.
Schoonover grew up spending his summers in the Pocono Mountains, which gave him "an affinity for wilderness scenes". (Zellman 744)
Howard Pyle, with whom he studied at the Drexel Institute, in Wilmington and at Chadd's Ford, (showing 500 of 11034 characters). |
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Frank Schoonover is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Illustrators
Western Painters
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