Frank Schoonover, Blackbeard in Smoke and Flame

Frank Schoonover

American · 1877–1972 · Painter, Illustrator

Frank Earle Schoonover was an American illustrator. A member of the Brandywine School, he was a contributing illustrator to magazines and did more than 5,000 paintings. (Wikipedia)

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38lots offered2005–2026years recorded92%sold (34)$10.7kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Frank Schoonover, As the canoe swept by, 1950, oil on canvasAs the canoe swept byBonhams · $182,500≈ £113,410≈ €140,460Sign up to see
  2. Frank Schoonover, Pickerel, 1917, oil on canvasPickerelCoeur d'Alene Art Auction · $96,800≈ £80,882≈ €94,995Sign up to see
  3. Frank Schoonover, The Sixty-Three Wagons of the Joel Nesbith Emigrant Were in Night Camp, 1936, oil on canvasThe Sixty-Three Wagons of the Joel Nesbith Emigrant Were in Night CampCoeur d'Alene Art Auction · $51,750≈ £25,944≈ €32,891Sign up to see

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Average price
median $10.7kfree account
High
auction record in database
Lots sold
34
of 37 offered · 2005–2026
Sell-through
92%
sold ÷ offered

Price trend

$1k$10k$100k20082011201420172020202320262005-04-11 · $7,0502008-07-26 · $43,1252008-07-26 · $51,7502009-07-25 · $10,9252012-12-11 · $25,0002012-12-11 · $182,5002014-11-15 · $16,0002015-05-15 · $28,0002015-05-20 · $10,6252017-04-01 · $8,1902018-11-19 · $23,7502019-04-06 · $14,0402022-04-09 · $46,8002022-04-09 · $8,1902022-07-23 · $96,8002023-05-19 · $9,0002023-11-10 · $10,3202024-05-10 · $10,7102024-05-10 · $32,7602024-05-10 · $15,1202024-05-10 · $6,3002024-05-10 · $10,0802024-05-10 · $8,8202024-05-10 · $7,8602024-05-10 · $23,9402024-05-10 · $9,0302024-05-10 · $8,1902024-05-10 · $5,2922024-05-10 · $21,4202024-06-27 · $6,0482025-04-30 · $5,3762025-08-23 · $2,6332025-08-23 · $2,3402026-07-25 · $51,425
Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

1 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

1 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

By medium

MediumOfferedSoldSell-throughAverageMedianHigh
Paintings373492%$24.1kSign up$10.7kSign up$183kSign up
Oil373492%$24.1kSign up$10.7kSign up$183kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

YearOfferedSoldMedian
202611$51.4kSign up
202543$2.6kSign up
20241313$9kSign up
202322$9.7kSign up
202233$46.8kSign up
201911$14kSign up
201811$23.8kSign up
201711$8.2kSign up
201522$19.3kSign up
201421$16kSign up
201222$104kSign up
201010—Sign up
200911$10.9kSign up
200822$47.4kSign up
200511$7kSign up

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