Frank Schoonover War Art

A series of paintings done by Frank Schoonover for Ladies Home Journal, 1918 - 1919.

Life on the Mississsippi

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Cover illustration by Frank Schoonover. Harper & Brothers, 1917.

Joan of Arc

Title page and color illustrations from Frank Schoonover's Joan of Arc. Originally published in 1918, these scans are from a 1995 reprint.

Pirates by Frank Schoonover

Frank Schoonover was born in 1877 in New Jersey. He studied under Howard Pyle and by 1905 was producing illustrations for Scribner's Magazine. Schoonover lived a productive life, he continued to paint and teach until his death in 1972. Schoonover is best known for his illustrations of the Northern Canadian frontier. But like any good Pyle student, he turned out a number of very nice pirate paintings. Here are a few of them:



Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters, by Rupert Holland. Garden City Publishing, 1931



Barbary Bo, by Reginald Wright Kauffman. Penn Publishing, 1929.



"Blackbeard in Smoke and Flame," 1922.