Cinema & the Arts as Sermons: Frank E. Schoonover: American Visions - Exhibition Video

Video from Norman Rockwell Museum

Frank E. Schoonover: American Visions - Exhibition Video

In our world of suffering and adversity is art a luxury? Art and beauty doesn’t feed people and doesn’t stop wars. The needs of the world force artists of faith to ask what matters in each note, paint stroke, stanza or exhibition.

There can be no doubt that the miracle we see in all of creation was a magnificent Artistic Expression, a grandeur and beauty that goes beyond our comprehension or ability. Yet as image makers we are endowed with God's creativity and art is an expression of that image.

Art and beauty gives us hope. Art transcends our present moment and helps us see that distant shore we so long for.

"November 10, 2018 through May 27, 2019 This exhibit is made possible in part by generous support from Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Sordoni Foundation, Inc, and Bonhams. For more information, visit: https://www.nrm.org/schoonoverhttps://www.frankschoonover.org Frank E. Schoonover’s (1877-1972) legendary adventure paintings were inspired by the belief that artists should live what they paint—an adage often repeated by his noted teacher, illustrator Howard Pyle, and absorbed by his fellow student and friend, N.C. Wyeth. This exhibition will explore the breadth of this important Golden Age artist’s career, beginning with Schoonover’s art school experiences as a student in Pyle’s classes at the newly founded Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in Philadelphia, beginning in 1896, and his time at the Chadds Ford Summer School in 1899, where he honed his skills among other gifted Pyle pupils. The artist’s historical book illustrations and dramatically staged adventure paintings will illuminate the depth of his own wanderlust. Schoonover made daring excursions to Canada and Alaska—during one such trip, in 1903, he traveled 1,200 miles almost entirely by snowshoe, dogsled, and canoe. The exhibition will feature Schoonover’s paintings for such classic stories as Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, and Ivanhoe, as well as illustrations for the novels of Zane Grey, which included Open Range, Avalanche, Rustlers of Silver Ridge, and Valley of Wild Horses, among others. During his long career, he illustrated more than two hundred books, and created memorable portrayals of Clarence Edward Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy to the delight of the character’s many ardent fans. Schoonover’s long teaching career will also be examined, as will his role in establishing the Delaware Art Museum and obtaining seminal Pyle works for its collection. Eighty original paintings, drawings, and studies will be on view, as will archival photographs and examples of the artist’s daybooks and personal effects." from video introduction.

For more information:

Schoonover Studios Limited Frankschoonover.org

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