Oral history interview with Frank Schoonover
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 34 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Schoonover, Frank Earle, 1877-1972
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Names
content: Harper's Magazine Foundation
label: Names
content: Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966
label: Names
content: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911
topic: label: Topic
content: Illustrators -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Schoonover, Frank Earle, 1877-1972
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972) was an illustrator, from Wilmington, Delaware.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1966 April 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schoon66
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Frank Schoonover conducted 1966 April 6, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art. Schoonover speaks of his first meeting with Howard Pyle; studying under Pyle at Drexel Institute and at Pyle's own school; Pyle's work for "Harper's"; working for "Harper's" himself as an illustrator; Pyle's contribution to illustration; and meeting Maxfield Parrish.