Frank Earle Schoonover (1877 – 1972) - American illustrator

Frank Earle Schoonover was born on 19th August 1877 in Oxford, New Jersey, USA. He studied art under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became a member of the Brandywine School

During the First World War, Frank contributed to the war effort by creating illustrations for the "Ladies Home Journal" magazine between 1918 and 1919.

Frank died on 1st September 1972 in Wilmington, Delaware, at the age of 95.

 

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Painting of the scene of Alvin York's exploits in the Argonne Forest on 8th October 1918 by Frank Earle Schoonover.. The painting, created in 1919, depicts the moment York single-handedly captured 132 German soldiers after single-handedly taking on a German machine gun nest.